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MALE RAPPER: ♪ Yo

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Ahem.

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♪ Came a long way

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♪ From where I was
a little while ago ♪

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♪ I says, you know,
a couple styles ago ♪

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♪ No shortcuts,
I was never the one ♪

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♪ To stay long ago at home

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♪ I see more shells
than the Galapagos ♪

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♪ Selection is less natural
and more tactical ♪

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♪ Pull off the lachrymose,
start to leave on sabbaticals ♪

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♪ The action he had to grow
and get passed through ♪

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♪ Crediting when you succeed
as people matter to you ♪

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♪ Rather destroy something,
what would you rather do? ♪

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♪ Any shift in the avenue
with a... ♪

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COMMON: This is a story

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that begins and ends
in Chicago.

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It starts with a race,

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a rowing race,

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the Chicago Sprints.

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A team from the West Side
of Chicago

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is headed to the water.

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Yeah, that's right,
the West Side.

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They're gonna race
1,000 meters

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at full throttle,
haulin' ass,

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going hard,
pedal to the metal,

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all out,

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but all moving together
as one.

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Rowing is as old
as time itself,

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and for so long the terrain

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of favorite sons
of famous families

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in places far,
far away from the West Side,

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light years away...

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FEMALE ANNOUNCER:
Lane 74...

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COMMON: ...until today.

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This team is going
back in time

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on this water, their water.

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They've come back to the place

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where they first found peace

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in their commitment
to one another.

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Beyond winning or losing,

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past the sound of the start
and the cheer of the crowd,

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the history they'll make
today is simple--

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that they survived.

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They overcame all that
the West Side threw at them,

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and that in and of itself
is fucking crazy.

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STARTER: Manley...

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Lincoln Park...

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attention.

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Go!
[pistol shot]

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In the late '90s,

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the West Side was not
a good place to grow up.

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Everyone's dream
was to get out.

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My name is Arshay Cooper.

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My name is Alvin Ross.

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My name is Malcolm Hawkins.

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Preston Grandberry.

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Tavares Goodman.

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Arthur White.

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Terry Meeks, Jr.

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Elliott Dwayne Moore.

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Ray Anthony Hawkins, Jr.

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- And your nickname?
- Pookie G.

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And I grew up
on the West Side of Chicago.

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- West Side.
- West Side.

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- West Side.
- The West Side.

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♪ You know what happens

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♪ When have-nots must have

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♪ Got to watch the police,
your caliph ♪

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♪ You got booked bag

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♪ Took drag off to an island

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♪ No look past

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♪ The system broke,
and the schools closed ♪

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♪ The prisons open

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♪ As many lives
don't got the drive ♪

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♪ This nigga's hopin'

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The first thing
you're gonna see

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as we go into the West Side

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is this huge
white juvenile center.

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We call it
the big white mansion.

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A lot of our friends
been through that place.

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♪ Sometimes it feel like
the ghetto is all we have ♪

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♪ See, it's hard
how we're livin'... ♪

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Once we cross Pulaski,

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you see a lot of
Gangster Disciples,

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a lot of New Breeds,
some BD's.

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Black Disciples.

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♪ So many swept up
off their feet ♪

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♪ And fell in love
with they street ♪

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♪ Not many job,
so many hours ♪

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♪ That they was placed
at your feet ♪

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ARSHAY: Manley High School

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was one of the most violent
high schools

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in the city of Chicago.

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The gangs were crazy.

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We had lot of gang violence,
a lot of fighting.

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People were just killing each
other for no apparent reason.

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It was like a war zone.

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♪ This is my last life

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♪ I would have chose this
in a past life ♪

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♪ Most dream
of gleamin' things ♪

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♪ Livin' the fast life

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♪ To sum it up, it's tough

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♪ Can't get the math right

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♪ Uh

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So I was roughly
around 10, 11.

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Probably, like, 11, 12.

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11.

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Might have been, like, 10, 11

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when I first seen
someone get shot.

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A kid got shot
in front of Manley.

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We seen someone do a drive-by
and shoot one of the students.

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Killed him dead
right on the curb.

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And that's directly across
the street from my house.

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It was always happening,
those types of things.

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MARY MAZZIO:
How did that affect you?

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- Can I be honest?
- Yeah.

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It really didn't affect me.

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It was something that I...
seen every day.

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I didn't feel sorrow, pain.

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It was just, like, blank.

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It was, like,
you're used to it.

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You expect it.
You knew what was coming.

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It was like a part of life,

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like "This is what happens
on the West Side of Chicago.

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Don't expect
anything different."

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In Chicago today,
a funeral for another child...

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TOM BROKAW:
47 teenage gun deaths.

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Last year, 133.

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- 88 killings in Chicago...
- In Chicago today,

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seven men were charged...

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Chicago. The gangs simply
are out of control.

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To go to school
from where I lived,

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every three blocks
there was a different gang.

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And to pass that neighborhood,
you know,

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if they didn't know you
or recognize you,

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you'd get jumped.

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That was every day
at Manley High School.

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People wanted to know
what you was,

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and you had to wear your hat
a certain kind of way

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or a certain kind
of gang color,

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so it was dangerous.

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In this neighborhood,

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you cannot wear your hat
tilt to the left side

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because that was Vice Lord
side.

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Here, people wear their hat
to the right,

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which shows that you're

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some kind of Disciple
or a New Breed.

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- Under the six-point star.
- Under the six-point star.

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And, um, the Vice Lords was
under the five-point star.

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So you had to be very careful.

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When you're in that type
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in that type of neighborhood,

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you want to feel
like you belong to something.

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You want to feel protected.

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Some people ask the question

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what college you're going
to go to when you grow up.

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In our neighborhood,
the big question was

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what gang you're gonna to join.

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You feel like you're
on the streets alone,

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so you make certain decisions
to really just survive.

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It's a logical decision.

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What would you do?

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Who would you turn to?

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The name of our set was SOA,

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and SOA stand for
Straight Off Albany.

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I was groomed into it
as a small child.

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Most of my brothers
were Vice Lords.

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I seen them
as, like, gods as a kid,

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so I wanted to do the same
thing as my brothers.

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When all you see
is the guy on the corner

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and he has
a big wad of money,

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he has the car,
he has the girls,

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he has the clothes,

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you can't be
what you can't see.

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The gangs came
to those young people

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saying, "We want to be
your family."

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They're using and abusing
the trust of these--

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of these young guys,
of the shorties.

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You know, I kind of, like,
fell off into that gang life

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and started thinking
like them.

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It's frightening,
you know, scary.

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Scary.

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Very scary.

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ARSHAY: And then one day,

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something happened that changed
the course of our lives.

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When I was a sophomore
in high school,

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I walked inside the lunchroom,
and I see this boat.

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And behind this boat
was this TV monitor.

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ANNOUNCER: Yale,
furthest from the camera,

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gets the jump at the start,

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rowing 40 strokes
to the minute.

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Following along is
President Roosevelt.

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It's one of the greatest
races ever seen.

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All I see in the boat were
white guys on the water.

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And I said, "Oh, no.

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That's not really for us.
It's not what we do."

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I didn't even know
what rowing was.

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We don't even swim.

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They'll never get no Black guys

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on the water like that.

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White people do that, not us.

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And I was like,
"Nah, man, nah, nah,

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I'm not doing the water."

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I show up to the lunchroom
the next day,

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and the boat was still there.

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But this time they had a big
sign that said "Pizza."

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I'm a real sucker for pizza.
That's my favorite.

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We was like, you know,
"Ah, we'll check it out."

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We had a room
full of pizza-loving students

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who probably had
no interest in rowing,

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but at least we had their
attention for a little bit.

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This guy comes in.

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He had kind of this intense
Bernie Sanders look.

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My name is Ken Alpart.

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I was running
my trading company

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in the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange.

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One of my employees,
Michael O'Gorman,

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threw the idea out there

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that "Why don't you, you know,

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start a rowing team
at one of the schools?"

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He went on to talk
about his rowing experience

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at the University
of Pennsylvania,

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how rowing give you
this opportunity

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to build a team,
to build a brotherhood.

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And that's something
I never had.

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I was excited
about the idea of debunking

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some of the stereotypes
around the sport.

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Ken said, "There's never been
an all-Black rowing team,"

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So I was excited about that.

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Ken hand us
this questionnaire--

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"Have you ever flew
on a plane before?"

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"What size shoes do you wear?"

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I'm like, "Oh, my God,
you know what?

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"We're getting Jordans,
we're gonna fly,

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"I'm going to Europe,
where you going?

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"What we gonna do?
What we gonna wear?

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I want some Sean John
clothes."

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All we had to do was sign up
and be a part of the team.

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When I actually looked
around the room,

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it was like, "Hmm,

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"I wonder how that's
gonna work,

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all us guys from different
parts of the neighborhood."

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This is like destruction
waiting to happen.

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These kids were sons
of drug addicts,

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sons of prostitutes,
sons of drug dealers.

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This is gonna be a boat

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full of people
with knots on their heads

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and fighting and cursing.

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Somebody's gonna be in the water
by the end of the day.

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It was like a family.

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Families bicker, they fight,

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but all together like now--

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But it wasn't family.

256
00:10:12,568 --> 00:10:13,656
BOTH:
It wasn't family at first!

257
00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:14,788
- [laughs]
- No, no.

258
00:10:16,050 --> 00:10:18,269
ARSHAY: We walk up
to the gym room.

259
00:10:18,313 --> 00:10:19,923
I see Alvin.

260
00:10:21,708 --> 00:10:25,102
And he was just pulling
the rowing machine,

261
00:10:25,146 --> 00:10:27,757
just yanking it, yanking it,
yanking it.

262
00:10:29,890 --> 00:10:31,761
And you see all the coaches
looking like,

263
00:10:31,805 --> 00:10:33,676
"Oh, my God, what did we
get ourselves into?"

264
00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,374
I could tell
Arshay didn't like me.

265
00:10:36,418 --> 00:10:38,550
ARSHAY: I even talked
to the coaches about it.

266
00:10:38,594 --> 00:10:40,378
ALVIN: But I didn't care

267
00:10:40,422 --> 00:10:43,164
'cause I was doing
some crazy things back then.

268
00:10:45,079 --> 00:10:46,341
ARSHAY: They said,
"He's strong,

269
00:10:46,384 --> 00:10:48,648
and let's see what happens."

270
00:10:48,691 --> 00:10:49,605
My first thought

271
00:10:49,649 --> 00:10:51,215
when Ken brought, uh,

272
00:10:51,259 --> 00:10:53,043
crew and rowing into Manley,

273
00:10:53,087 --> 00:10:54,044
was, "It's not gone work."

274
00:10:54,088 --> 00:10:55,306
Well why not?

275
00:10:55,350 --> 00:10:57,439
You know, our students
need to be exposed

276
00:10:57,482 --> 00:11:01,138
to a lot more than basketball,
football, baseball.

277
00:11:01,182 --> 00:11:03,053
CRAIG: You're gonna take
some West Side kids

278
00:11:03,097 --> 00:11:04,185
over to the river,
over to the lake?

279
00:11:04,228 --> 00:11:05,403
We're gonna make history.

280
00:11:05,447 --> 00:11:07,014
Nah, that's not gonna work.

281
00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,107
One of the craziest things
Ken did

282
00:11:13,150 --> 00:11:15,022
before the season even started

283
00:11:15,065 --> 00:11:17,198
was take us
to the East Bank Club.

284
00:11:17,241 --> 00:11:19,940
It was this really,
really nice gym.

285
00:11:22,464 --> 00:11:23,987
There was a lot of rich people
everywhere.

286
00:11:24,031 --> 00:11:26,163
ARSHAY: They was talking
about what school they went to,

287
00:11:26,207 --> 00:11:28,644
how much money they're making,
their yachts.

288
00:11:28,688 --> 00:11:30,646
Malcolm gets to talking

289
00:11:30,690 --> 00:11:33,693
in what he call
his Harvard voice.

290
00:11:33,736 --> 00:11:35,695
Oh, Preston, where's my yacht?

291
00:11:35,738 --> 00:11:37,871
I'm gonna send my daughter
to Harvard tomorrow.

292
00:11:37,914 --> 00:11:40,264
I just lost $6 million
in the stock market.

293
00:11:40,308 --> 00:11:43,354
Oh, I'm gonna have me a--
a cup of tea.

294
00:11:43,398 --> 00:11:45,269
[laughter]

295
00:11:45,313 --> 00:11:46,967
First impression
I had about Ken--

296
00:11:47,010 --> 00:11:49,099
this white guy have balls.

297
00:11:49,143 --> 00:11:50,492
[car alarm chirps]

298
00:11:51,972 --> 00:11:53,451
You really don't see
a white guy

299
00:11:53,495 --> 00:11:54,888
come into the neighborhood
like this.

300
00:11:54,931 --> 00:11:56,280
He wasn't scared
to come, neither, man.

301
00:11:56,324 --> 00:11:58,021
- No, he was--he was--
- So he had balls, man.

302
00:11:58,065 --> 00:11:59,370
- He held his own.
- He had balls.

303
00:11:59,414 --> 00:12:01,024
Yes. [chuckles]

304
00:12:04,201 --> 00:12:06,769
Having no regard
for the neighborhood,

305
00:12:06,813 --> 00:12:08,945
the gangbangers,
and who it was,

306
00:12:08,989 --> 00:12:11,252
He would definitely just come
flying up in this Jeep,

307
00:12:11,295 --> 00:12:12,949
doors off, top off.

308
00:12:12,993 --> 00:12:14,168
Every time a Caucasian person

309
00:12:14,211 --> 00:12:15,604
would come
into the neighborhood,

310
00:12:15,647 --> 00:12:17,214
we thought
they were the police.

311
00:12:17,258 --> 00:12:19,390
I had to tell him, like,
"You cannot just pull up

312
00:12:19,434 --> 00:12:21,784
like you the police.
Bro, you're gonna get shot."

313
00:12:21,828 --> 00:12:24,004
It's like he wasn't afraid
to come on the West Side

314
00:12:24,047 --> 00:12:25,309
and just walk in your house.

315
00:12:25,353 --> 00:12:26,615
Ken was a real cool dude.

316
00:12:26,658 --> 00:12:28,704
I really liked Ken,
and my mom did too.

317
00:12:28,748 --> 00:12:31,881
But my pops, my pops,
oh, my God.

318
00:12:31,925 --> 00:12:33,230
When he found out

319
00:12:33,274 --> 00:12:35,493
that my mom had let Ken
come into the house,

320
00:12:35,537 --> 00:12:37,278
he blew a fuse.

321
00:12:37,321 --> 00:12:39,106
Malcolm's dad wanted Malcolm

322
00:12:39,149 --> 00:12:41,282
to have nothing to do
with a white guy,

323
00:12:41,325 --> 00:12:43,284
especially a white Jewish guy.

324
00:12:43,327 --> 00:12:45,765
My dad didn't like anything
that wasn't Black.

325
00:12:45,808 --> 00:12:47,505
I didn't concern myself
with things

326
00:12:47,549 --> 00:12:48,724
that probably I should have
concerned myself with,

327
00:12:48,768 --> 00:12:50,682
and part of that
was an insensitivity.

328
00:12:50,726 --> 00:12:52,336
If you thought
Ken was insensitive,

329
00:12:52,380 --> 00:12:54,208
wait till you meet
Mike O'Gorman.

330
00:12:55,687 --> 00:12:58,952
ARSHAY: Ken started a team
with this guy Michael O'Gorman,

331
00:12:58,995 --> 00:13:01,389
who was a national team
coxswain.

332
00:13:01,432 --> 00:13:04,784
Michael O'Gorman was a--
was a unique character.

333
00:13:04,827 --> 00:13:06,611
Michael was kinda...

334
00:13:10,180 --> 00:13:12,400
Well...I plead the Fifth.

335
00:13:12,443 --> 00:13:16,360
Borderline racist,
if I can say that.

336
00:13:16,404 --> 00:13:17,927
I honestly don't think
he was a racist.

337
00:13:17,971 --> 00:13:19,363
He just didn't know
the difference

338
00:13:19,407 --> 00:13:21,757
between right time
and right place.

339
00:13:21,801 --> 00:13:24,194
Michael and I were sitting
on the West Side of Chicago,

340
00:13:24,238 --> 00:13:25,630
and we were the only
white people in the McDonald's,

341
00:13:25,674 --> 00:13:27,676
and this guy sitting
next to us

342
00:13:27,719 --> 00:13:30,157
says to me,
"Are you Jewish?"

343
00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,855
And I said, "Yes, I have--
Yes, I am Jewish."

344
00:13:32,899 --> 00:13:34,378
He goes,

345
00:13:34,422 --> 00:13:37,120
"I knew the second I saw you
that you were Jewish."

346
00:13:37,164 --> 00:13:39,035
And Michael turns to him,
and he goes,

347
00:13:39,079 --> 00:13:40,036
"Are you Black?"

348
00:13:41,777 --> 00:13:44,606
"'Cause I knew the second
I saw you that you were Black."

349
00:13:44,649 --> 00:13:47,870
Now, I don't know if you would
count that as a racist thing,

350
00:13:47,914 --> 00:13:50,046
but that's just the kind
of thing Michael would say.

351
00:13:50,090 --> 00:13:52,527
But the crazy thing
about Michael,

352
00:13:52,570 --> 00:13:54,007
he was the idea behind

353
00:13:54,050 --> 00:13:56,661
starting this all-Black
high school rowing team.

354
00:13:57,793 --> 00:13:59,490
I can actually see him
doing that,

355
00:13:59,534 --> 00:14:01,318
wanting to reach out
and help some--

356
00:14:01,362 --> 00:14:02,711
some less fortunate kids.

357
00:14:02,754 --> 00:14:05,583
KEN: I think Michael
probably loved those kids.

358
00:14:05,627 --> 00:14:08,456
A guy who we thought
was racist

359
00:14:08,499 --> 00:14:11,241
would come up with an idea

360
00:14:11,285 --> 00:14:12,590
that's never been done before.

361
00:14:12,634 --> 00:14:15,245
There's only very few Blacks
in the sport.

362
00:14:15,289 --> 00:14:17,508
[chuckles]
That's ironic for...

363
00:14:27,475 --> 00:14:28,693
ARSHAY: I'll never forget

364
00:14:28,737 --> 00:14:30,521
the first time
we were on the water.

365
00:14:34,134 --> 00:14:35,962
And we get in the boat.

366
00:14:37,659 --> 00:14:39,356
ALVIN: Everyone
had on life jackets.

367
00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:40,401
I didn't know how to swim.

368
00:14:40,444 --> 00:14:41,793
We was all extremely nervous.

369
00:14:41,837 --> 00:14:43,795
I was a little scared.

370
00:14:43,839 --> 00:14:44,927
I said to the guys,
I was like,

371
00:14:44,971 --> 00:14:45,928
"How can you guys be scared?

372
00:14:45,972 --> 00:14:47,103
"You guys deal with gunshots

373
00:14:47,147 --> 00:14:48,452
"all day long
in your neighborhood,

374
00:14:48,496 --> 00:14:50,324
and you're scared
to sit in a boat?"

375
00:14:50,367 --> 00:14:52,935
It was really embarrassing.

376
00:14:52,979 --> 00:14:54,981
And they was like, "Man,
shut up, this is different."

377
00:14:59,594 --> 00:15:01,117
ARSHAY:
We're all on the water.

378
00:15:01,161 --> 00:15:03,554
Bow pair start taking
some strokes,

379
00:15:03,598 --> 00:15:05,208
and we were moving.

380
00:15:07,341 --> 00:15:08,646
And as we were moving,

381
00:15:08,690 --> 00:15:10,822
you can see the skyline.

382
00:15:10,866 --> 00:15:12,824
You can see
the John Hancock building.

383
00:15:15,479 --> 00:15:17,873
It was the most beautiful
thing I ever seen.

384
00:15:19,744 --> 00:15:21,921
When it's calm
and you're out there,

385
00:15:21,964 --> 00:15:25,359
it take your mind away from
any problems that you have.

386
00:15:25,402 --> 00:15:26,882
It brightened my life.

387
00:15:28,144 --> 00:15:29,841
ARSHAY:
I think the special thing

388
00:15:29,885 --> 00:15:31,495
about being
in the boat together

389
00:15:31,539 --> 00:15:36,326
was not being
around the noise.

390
00:15:36,370 --> 00:15:38,372
The noise of
the West Side of Chicago

391
00:15:38,415 --> 00:15:42,245
is police sirens...

392
00:15:42,289 --> 00:15:44,204
gunshots...

393
00:15:44,247 --> 00:15:46,728
people screaming,
people getting jumped.

394
00:15:49,774 --> 00:15:51,515
There was something
about the water

395
00:15:51,559 --> 00:15:52,734
that gave us peace.

396
00:15:54,910 --> 00:15:56,216
That was something

397
00:15:56,259 --> 00:15:58,392
that we all had never felt
before...

398
00:16:00,133 --> 00:16:01,699
and we all needed that.

399
00:16:01,743 --> 00:16:03,875
And at that moment,

400
00:16:03,919 --> 00:16:06,748
I fell in love
with the sport of rowing.

401
00:16:08,228 --> 00:16:11,492
Being the first all-Black
American crew team to do it,

402
00:16:11,535 --> 00:16:15,496
it became something that changed
our life in the end.

403
00:16:27,943 --> 00:16:29,379
ARSHAY:
We were new to the sport,

404
00:16:29,423 --> 00:16:32,426
and none of us
had any endurance.

405
00:16:32,469 --> 00:16:34,036
So Mike and Ken took us

406
00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,038
on a training trip
to Philadelphia

407
00:16:36,082 --> 00:16:37,909
before the season began.

408
00:16:37,953 --> 00:16:39,955
City of Brotherly Love.

409
00:16:50,139 --> 00:16:54,056
The trip was so important to me
because we got on the water,

410
00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:58,234
two boats of African-American
young people

411
00:16:58,278 --> 00:17:01,803
that I think no one in
Philly has ever seen.

412
00:17:01,846 --> 00:17:04,936
And you would see people
running along the Schuylkill,

413
00:17:04,980 --> 00:17:08,027
and they would stop,
and they would just stare,

414
00:17:08,070 --> 00:17:11,378
and they were, like,
cheering and clapping and,

415
00:17:11,421 --> 00:17:13,380
you know, because they saw
something new.

416
00:17:15,164 --> 00:17:17,906
You accomplished something.
You did something.

417
00:17:17,949 --> 00:17:20,865
Something good.
Feel important.

418
00:17:20,909 --> 00:17:23,129
And I think that meant
a lot for all of us.

419
00:17:27,524 --> 00:17:30,962
During the Philly trip is
when everyone really bonded.

420
00:17:31,006 --> 00:17:33,617
I was a loner
when I first got on that bus.

421
00:17:33,661 --> 00:17:37,056
I didn't really associate
with none of the guys

422
00:17:37,099 --> 00:17:39,971
because we were from
different neighborhoods.

423
00:17:40,015 --> 00:17:41,799
ARSHAY: And I said, "Alvin."

424
00:17:41,843 --> 00:17:44,976
He asked me,
why am I in a gang?

425
00:17:45,020 --> 00:17:46,891
"Why do you--
why are you jumping people?"

426
00:17:46,935 --> 00:17:52,201
And I--I explained to him
I needed the help.

427
00:17:52,245 --> 00:17:53,985
My little brother Robert,
we were walking home.

428
00:17:54,029 --> 00:17:57,467
A rival gang tried to jump us.

429
00:17:57,511 --> 00:18:00,775
Man, it was like 10
to 15 of these guys.

430
00:18:00,818 --> 00:18:02,690
I had to look
after my brother.

431
00:18:02,733 --> 00:18:04,083
ARSHAY:
When you know Alvin,

432
00:18:04,126 --> 00:18:06,302
it's all about protecting
his brothers and sisters.

433
00:18:06,346 --> 00:18:07,651
He made a decision

434
00:18:07,695 --> 00:18:10,089
that any other person
would make, you know?

435
00:18:10,132 --> 00:18:11,829
"I'm gonna join."

436
00:18:11,873 --> 00:18:14,180
It was dangerous being
in a gang on the West Side,

437
00:18:14,223 --> 00:18:15,790
but I honestly think
it was even--

438
00:18:15,833 --> 00:18:18,314
even more dangerous not being
in a gang on the West Side.

439
00:18:18,358 --> 00:18:19,707
One of the things
that we're finding

440
00:18:19,750 --> 00:18:21,404
in neighborhoods
like the West

441
00:18:21,448 --> 00:18:23,580
and the South Side
of Chicago--

442
00:18:23,624 --> 00:18:25,669
one out of three youth

443
00:18:25,713 --> 00:18:28,324
have had a close friend
or family member

444
00:18:28,368 --> 00:18:30,196
who's actually been murdered.

445
00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:34,374
I don't know how they come
to school every day.

446
00:18:34,417 --> 00:18:36,332
How can you expect
a child to learn?

447
00:18:36,376 --> 00:18:37,855
You shut down.

448
00:18:37,899 --> 00:18:40,119
Math is out the window,
reading is out the window.

449
00:18:45,211 --> 00:18:47,996
Chicago is seven times
more violent than New York.

450
00:18:48,039 --> 00:18:50,912
It's three and a half times
more violent than L.A.

451
00:18:50,955 --> 00:18:53,915
We have raised an entire
generation of kids

452
00:18:53,958 --> 00:18:55,438
on gun violence.

453
00:18:55,482 --> 00:18:59,355
And that trauma is
so deep and so real.

454
00:18:59,399 --> 00:19:03,185
That kind of chronic trauma
really is even worse

455
00:19:03,229 --> 00:19:05,405
than our soldiers
who come back from wars.

456
00:19:05,448 --> 00:19:08,277
The rates of PTSD we generally
see in combat veterans

457
00:19:08,321 --> 00:19:11,193
is at most 20 to 25%.

458
00:19:11,237 --> 00:19:13,804
In some of the inner-city work
we're seeing in Chicago,

459
00:19:13,848 --> 00:19:18,069
you can see PTSD rates
as high as 35 to 45%.

460
00:19:18,113 --> 00:19:20,550
DEBORAH GORMAN-SMITH:
One third of students

461
00:19:20,594 --> 00:19:23,205
report clinical levels
of depression,

462
00:19:23,249 --> 00:19:25,686
also high rates of anxiety.

463
00:19:25,729 --> 00:19:28,906
KERRY RESSLER: Constant trauma
during development

464
00:19:28,950 --> 00:19:30,125
alters the brain.

465
00:19:31,866 --> 00:19:33,563
A brain region
called the amygdala

466
00:19:33,607 --> 00:19:36,218
that is involved
in the threat response,

467
00:19:36,262 --> 00:19:39,874
that becomes hyperactivated
earlier in life,

468
00:19:39,917 --> 00:19:43,530
and the prefrontal cortex
does not develop as rapidly.

469
00:19:43,573 --> 00:19:46,010
The ability to sort of
think into the future

470
00:19:46,054 --> 00:19:48,491
is delayed.

471
00:19:48,535 --> 00:19:52,060
Any brain that develops
in a high-threat way

472
00:19:52,103 --> 00:19:56,151
has to develop in a way
to put survival first.

473
00:19:56,195 --> 00:19:58,501
That's the biology they have.

474
00:19:58,545 --> 00:20:00,764
I started thinking
with a different attitude,

475
00:20:00,808 --> 00:20:03,245
like, man, if somebody try
to get me, I'm gonna get them.

476
00:20:04,594 --> 00:20:08,076
[laughs]
I understood, you know,

477
00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,774
that he joined this gang
for protection.

478
00:20:10,818 --> 00:20:13,429
For Arshay to ask
a personal question like that,

479
00:20:13,473 --> 00:20:16,084
that's just typically something
you don't ask a person,

480
00:20:16,127 --> 00:20:18,608
and Alvin was honest
with him.

481
00:20:18,652 --> 00:20:20,436
At that point I knew

482
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,308
that it was a friendship
and a brotherhood.

483
00:20:24,048 --> 00:20:25,920
But what I said to him
is that,

484
00:20:25,963 --> 00:20:28,662
"If you notice,
these three months,

485
00:20:28,705 --> 00:20:30,664
"you haven't been
hanging out with them.

486
00:20:30,707 --> 00:20:32,883
"You've been here
every day practicing.

487
00:20:32,927 --> 00:20:35,146
"You think you made
a bad choice,

488
00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:37,148
"but guess what.
You made a new choice.

489
00:20:37,192 --> 00:20:40,369
"And that choice was
to hang out with us.

490
00:20:40,413 --> 00:20:41,805
"Now you have
a brotherhood

491
00:20:41,849 --> 00:20:43,503
that can protect you
and do the right thing."

492
00:20:45,331 --> 00:20:47,420
Rowing was stronger
than the gang,

493
00:20:47,463 --> 00:20:49,422
and that was a powerful thing.

494
00:20:51,162 --> 00:20:53,817
TERRY: That was
a turning point for Alvin.

495
00:20:53,861 --> 00:20:55,297
I made a promise

496
00:20:55,341 --> 00:20:58,779
that I will meet Alvin
at his house every morning,

497
00:20:58,822 --> 00:21:02,217
walk with him, be his friend,
be a safety net.

498
00:21:04,524 --> 00:21:06,177
I believe Arshay did this

499
00:21:06,221 --> 00:21:10,747
because he seen me going down
a road that wasn't--

500
00:21:10,791 --> 00:21:13,184
[chuckles]--wasn't right.

501
00:21:13,228 --> 00:21:14,969
Right then and there
you had somebody

502
00:21:15,012 --> 00:21:17,363
to make sure you a'ight,
make sure you make it.

503
00:21:18,364 --> 00:21:22,672
Every single morning,
he would come to my house.

504
00:21:22,716 --> 00:21:25,806
Arshay was at our house
every single day.

505
00:21:25,849 --> 00:21:26,937
Every morning.

506
00:21:26,981 --> 00:21:28,896
Every morning
I used to wake up,

507
00:21:28,939 --> 00:21:30,811
and I'm seeing his big head
in the room,

508
00:21:30,854 --> 00:21:33,857
and I--[laughs]--I was--
be like, "Man, Joe,

509
00:21:33,901 --> 00:21:34,989
you going home?"

510
00:21:35,032 --> 00:21:36,338
Man, he--It was powerful.

511
00:21:36,382 --> 00:21:38,340
After a while, it's just,

512
00:21:38,384 --> 00:21:40,864
"Man, Joe, you just
part of the family now.

513
00:21:40,908 --> 00:21:44,651
I can't get rid of you."
[laughs]

514
00:21:47,088 --> 00:21:49,830
ARSHAY: School ends,
but we all keep rowing

515
00:21:49,873 --> 00:21:53,703
because this summer we have
our first official race--

516
00:21:53,747 --> 00:21:57,751
the Chicago Sprints,
a killer 1,000-meter race.

517
00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:02,451
We see all these white teens.

518
00:22:03,496 --> 00:22:06,237
All these tall white guys,

519
00:22:06,281 --> 00:22:08,544
like, just lean.

520
00:22:08,588 --> 00:22:11,765
We're all kind of short
and, you know,

521
00:22:11,808 --> 00:22:13,288
stocky or swole,

522
00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:15,334
if that's what you want
to call us. [chuckles]

523
00:22:16,813 --> 00:22:19,642
And we're walking to the dock,

524
00:22:19,686 --> 00:22:20,730
and we're nervous.

525
00:22:22,558 --> 00:22:24,299
Malcolm is cranking.

526
00:22:26,519 --> 00:22:28,521
And the boat starts turning.

527
00:22:28,564 --> 00:22:30,610
And we hit the wall. Boom!

528
00:22:30,653 --> 00:22:33,134
[rowers shouting]

529
00:22:34,135 --> 00:22:37,356
I have never felt
so much pain,

530
00:22:37,399 --> 00:22:40,315
feeling embarrassed.

531
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,622
And I was sitting
in the locker room by myself,

532
00:22:42,665 --> 00:22:44,928
and this Black man walks in.

533
00:22:44,972 --> 00:22:46,277
He worked
for the Park District.

534
00:22:46,321 --> 00:22:47,540
His name was Eugene.

535
00:22:47,583 --> 00:22:48,889
And he looked at me,

536
00:22:48,932 --> 00:22:51,152
and he said, "Who said
it was gonna be easy?

537
00:22:53,067 --> 00:22:56,157
"Years from now, no one's gonna
remember those other kids,

538
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,333
"but they're gonna
remember you.

539
00:22:58,377 --> 00:22:59,726
"And you have to stay strong.

540
00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:03,120
"You guys have to keep
doing it.

541
00:23:03,164 --> 00:23:04,905
You have to keep rowing."

542
00:23:20,355 --> 00:23:22,575
ARSHAY: No one said
it was gonna be easy.

543
00:23:22,618 --> 00:23:25,578
And it wasn't.
It only got harder.

544
00:23:25,621 --> 00:23:26,970
[police siren blares]

545
00:23:27,014 --> 00:23:29,843
So right here to the right
is where Josh lived.

546
00:23:29,886 --> 00:23:35,501
Uh, Josh was the baby brother
teammate, um, of ours.

547
00:23:35,544 --> 00:23:36,763
He got killed.

548
00:23:36,806 --> 00:23:38,025
Crenshaw and Central Park.

549
00:23:38,068 --> 00:23:42,333
We lost Josh,
uh, Dirty Herb, Jonathan.

550
00:23:42,377 --> 00:23:43,944
Mm-hmm.

551
00:23:43,987 --> 00:23:47,817
Think of the cumulative stress
of that 24/7 every single day.

552
00:23:47,861 --> 00:23:49,297
It's unimaginable.

553
00:23:49,340 --> 00:23:50,690
So yeah, I'ma go
in front of these

554
00:23:50,733 --> 00:23:52,866
'cause it's right here
at this tree.

555
00:23:54,258 --> 00:23:57,218
Last year, my little cousin,
she was 12 years old.

556
00:23:57,261 --> 00:23:59,655
She was, um, shot
and killed here.

557
00:23:59,699 --> 00:24:03,093
My sister was parked
just a couple houses down.

558
00:24:03,137 --> 00:24:05,835
They got out of their hou--
out of the car

559
00:24:05,879 --> 00:24:07,184
to go to the house,

560
00:24:07,228 --> 00:24:08,664
and guys started shooting
from both ways.

561
00:24:08,708 --> 00:24:09,839
She was struck in the neck,

562
00:24:09,883 --> 00:24:13,669
and she passed away
right here.

563
00:24:20,546 --> 00:24:23,200
It kind of makes you lose
hope for your community.

564
00:24:23,244 --> 00:24:25,594
DR. RESSLER: What we're
looking at is communities

565
00:24:25,638 --> 00:24:28,249
with many generations
of trauma.

566
00:24:28,292 --> 00:24:31,513
If you don't believe
you're going to live to be 20,

567
00:24:31,557 --> 00:24:33,297
it changes everything.

568
00:24:33,341 --> 00:24:35,038
Not only
do the individuals feel

569
00:24:35,082 --> 00:24:36,649
like that they don't have
a future,

570
00:24:36,692 --> 00:24:39,695
the communities don't really
feel that they have a future.

571
00:24:39,739 --> 00:24:40,870
Everyone is on edge.

572
00:24:40,914 --> 00:24:43,307
It's a constant war zone.

573
00:24:43,351 --> 00:24:45,484
How do you break out of that?

574
00:24:47,703 --> 00:24:50,227
People talk
about income inequality,

575
00:24:50,271 --> 00:24:52,316
but something that gets
even less attention

576
00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:53,883
and is even more fundamental

577
00:24:53,927 --> 00:24:56,973
is inequality in basic safety.

578
00:24:57,017 --> 00:25:00,542
The rough, hard number
that violence costs our city

579
00:25:00,586 --> 00:25:03,545
is about $4 billion a year.

580
00:25:03,589 --> 00:25:06,113
If more of the victims
looked like me,

581
00:25:06,156 --> 00:25:09,203
if more of the victims
lived downtown,

582
00:25:09,246 --> 00:25:11,771
it would not be tolerated.
It would not be acceptable.

583
00:25:20,693 --> 00:25:22,433
ARSHAY: After we
crashed and burned

584
00:25:22,477 --> 00:25:24,958
in our first race
at the Chicago Sprints,

585
00:25:25,001 --> 00:25:27,917
we then headed to St. Louis
for our second race.

586
00:25:29,571 --> 00:25:31,921
There was nowhere to go
but up.

587
00:25:31,965 --> 00:25:33,923
KEN: We were able
to put together a four

588
00:25:33,967 --> 00:25:37,579
that we believed would be
like a--like a top four.

589
00:25:37,623 --> 00:25:39,668
ARSHAY: Me, Malcolm,
Alvin, and Preston--

590
00:25:39,712 --> 00:25:41,104
the strong four.

591
00:25:41,148 --> 00:25:43,933
Physically,
they were incredible.

592
00:25:43,977 --> 00:25:45,369
I'm gonna be honest, man.

593
00:25:45,413 --> 00:25:47,241
Like, I--I felt
like I was the strongest.

594
00:25:47,284 --> 00:25:49,243
- There--
- People say Malcolm,

595
00:25:49,286 --> 00:25:51,637
but, you know,
I was called Diesel, man.

596
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,290
- I was, you know,
- Let's just say--

597
00:25:53,334 --> 00:25:54,378
I was the swole one
on the team.

598
00:25:54,422 --> 00:25:55,771
We were the strong four

599
00:25:55,815 --> 00:25:57,730
not because we were
the strongest on the team,

600
00:25:57,773 --> 00:25:59,253
although we were the strongest
on the team,

601
00:25:59,296 --> 00:26:00,950
but we had the strongest bond.

602
00:26:00,994 --> 00:26:03,474
We see all of these
white people wearing,

603
00:26:03,518 --> 00:26:05,738
you know, the what,
the tights, the Speedos,

604
00:26:05,781 --> 00:26:07,304
whatever they're gonna race in.

605
00:26:07,348 --> 00:26:10,612
We wouldn't wear shorts
that kind of...

606
00:26:10,656 --> 00:26:11,961
grab on to your leg.

607
00:26:12,005 --> 00:26:14,007
We was like, you know,
we can't do that.

608
00:26:14,050 --> 00:26:15,312
'Cause we're blessed.

609
00:26:15,356 --> 00:26:17,010
[laughter]

610
00:26:17,053 --> 00:26:18,359
And then we, you know,
we're dealing

611
00:26:18,402 --> 00:26:19,969
with them cold
temperatures, man.

612
00:26:20,013 --> 00:26:21,754
That's a valid point.

613
00:26:21,797 --> 00:26:25,627
♪ You might wanna
step out here tonight ♪

614
00:26:25,671 --> 00:26:27,542
ARSHAY: And we started rowing.

615
00:26:27,586 --> 00:26:30,066
ALVIN: And we're pulling
as hard as we can.

616
00:26:30,110 --> 00:26:31,415
I mean,
it was real choppy water.

617
00:26:31,459 --> 00:26:32,634
We was afraid.

618
00:26:32,678 --> 00:26:33,983
And Alvin's screaming,

619
00:26:34,027 --> 00:26:37,465
"Water's in the boat!
Water's in the boat!"

620
00:26:37,508 --> 00:26:39,902
And my basketball shorts
get caught in the seat.

621
00:26:39,946 --> 00:26:43,123
PRESTON: And he catches
the worst crab ever.

622
00:26:43,166 --> 00:26:46,387
A crab is when you put
your oar too deep in the water

623
00:26:46,430 --> 00:26:48,432
and you can't recover.

624
00:26:48,476 --> 00:26:49,999
♪ ...a place
where the dreams get shot ♪

625
00:26:50,043 --> 00:26:51,871
♪ And I feel like what,
can't stop, won't stop ♪

626
00:26:51,914 --> 00:26:54,351
[shouting]

627
00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:55,526
♪ Ready or not,
we gonna rise ♪

628
00:26:55,570 --> 00:26:57,180
♪ You holding on steady
tonight ♪

629
00:26:57,224 --> 00:26:58,442
♪ And I draw tight screaming,
oh, you'll hear me tonight ♪

630
00:26:58,486 --> 00:26:59,487
♪ That was good

631
00:26:59,530 --> 00:27:00,967
Almost flips the boat over.

632
00:27:01,010 --> 00:27:02,838
Everybody was scared
at that point.

633
00:27:02,882 --> 00:27:06,189
Arshay was like, "I can't move!
I can't come up to the catch."

634
00:27:06,233 --> 00:27:08,539
And out of nowhere,

635
00:27:08,583 --> 00:27:11,586
you just see Pookie
start screaming,

636
00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:13,588
"Come on guys,
right now, right now!

637
00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:15,372
Let's get to it, Power 10!"

638
00:27:15,416 --> 00:27:17,897
"What the fuck are you guys
doing? Move the boat."

639
00:27:17,940 --> 00:27:20,464
"Damn, come on!
Get this shit!

640
00:27:20,508 --> 00:27:22,858
Come, come on,
get on this shit, get on it!"

641
00:27:22,902 --> 00:27:25,469
I thought he was a sailor,
the way he cussed at us.

642
00:27:25,513 --> 00:27:27,907
PRESTON: It was upsetting
at the same time,

643
00:27:27,950 --> 00:27:29,125
but it's hilarious

644
00:27:29,169 --> 00:27:30,866
to hear Pookie G
at the top of his lungs

645
00:27:30,910 --> 00:27:34,130
screaming a million
different curse words.

646
00:27:34,174 --> 00:27:36,089
- We came in third.
- And I said to myself,

647
00:27:36,132 --> 00:27:37,917
"Maybe, maybe, maybe

648
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,136
we should stop wearing
the basketball shorts."

649
00:27:40,180 --> 00:27:41,529
Maybe we should do something

650
00:27:41,572 --> 00:27:44,227
to try to keep our shorts
from getting caught.

651
00:27:44,271 --> 00:27:46,099
I didn't want to, say,
wear tights

652
00:27:46,142 --> 00:27:48,536
'cause that was a no-no
for us.

653
00:27:48,579 --> 00:27:51,234
We were so caught up
in what people thought

654
00:27:51,278 --> 00:27:52,888
and being urban
to the point

655
00:27:52,932 --> 00:27:55,978
where it cost us our first
first place win.

656
00:27:56,022 --> 00:27:58,720
It's just like,
"When you gonna learn?"

657
00:27:58,764 --> 00:28:01,418
Um, I felt pretty good
because, uh, we actually placed.

658
00:28:01,462 --> 00:28:02,768
We didn't hit a wall.

659
00:28:07,947 --> 00:28:10,558
The students were not aware

660
00:28:10,601 --> 00:28:12,647
of what it would mean
to a school,

661
00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:15,824
a Black high school,
to be participating in this.

662
00:28:15,868 --> 00:28:17,652
Nobody took it for real.

663
00:28:17,696 --> 00:28:19,828
The football team
would make fun of us.

664
00:28:19,872 --> 00:28:21,090
They laughed at us a lot.

665
00:28:21,134 --> 00:28:22,439
They laughed at us, like,

666
00:28:22,483 --> 00:28:23,658
"Man, what y'all gonna do
in that water?"

667
00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:25,051
I would come to school,

668
00:28:25,094 --> 00:28:26,487
and they would call me
6'5"-for-nothing.

669
00:28:26,530 --> 00:28:28,532
I was kind of embarrassed
of it for the most part.

670
00:28:28,576 --> 00:28:30,099
My family never showed up.

671
00:28:30,143 --> 00:28:31,579
None of our friends,

672
00:28:31,622 --> 00:28:33,276
none of the staff
from our schools.

673
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,757
You know, we had no support.

674
00:28:40,196 --> 00:28:41,676
It was just us,

675
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,157
and when I say just us,
just us.

676
00:28:46,812 --> 00:28:48,509
We bonded a lot closer

677
00:28:48,552 --> 00:28:50,424
because we had nobody
clapping us on,

678
00:28:50,467 --> 00:28:52,078
so we had to cheer
each other on.

679
00:28:54,471 --> 00:28:56,169
No one ever came.

680
00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:04,568
ARSHAY: My mother has never
came to see me race.

681
00:29:13,229 --> 00:29:18,147
I started drinking
at the age of 14.

682
00:29:18,191 --> 00:29:21,324
And then it was,
uh, crack cocaine.

683
00:29:22,543 --> 00:29:27,809
It was pretty hard growing up
seeing my mom hooked on drugs.

684
00:29:27,853 --> 00:29:29,724
LINDA: It got so bad

685
00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:33,946
that I started spending
every dime that I had.

686
00:29:33,989 --> 00:29:37,297
I remember
Christmas gifts being stolen.

687
00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:40,474
She was screaming,
yelling for a fix.

688
00:29:40,517 --> 00:29:43,085
And there was no food
on the dinner table.

689
00:29:43,129 --> 00:29:46,523
That's a--
that's a terrible feeling,

690
00:29:46,567 --> 00:29:48,612
not to have nothing to eat.

691
00:29:48,656 --> 00:29:52,312
Got to do--Got to do
your best to--just to survive.

692
00:29:55,750 --> 00:29:57,273
We haven't seen her
for months and months.

693
00:29:57,317 --> 00:29:59,841
We didn't know if she was dead
or where she was.

694
00:29:59,885 --> 00:30:03,627
ARSHAY: My brothers, they both
started to join a gang.

695
00:30:03,671 --> 00:30:06,152
We got into
the gang activities

696
00:30:06,195 --> 00:30:12,158
trying to survive, basically,
and, you know, pretty much...

697
00:30:12,201 --> 00:30:15,683
I remember looking in a drawer

698
00:30:15,726 --> 00:30:18,686
and seeing these notes
about being a gang member.

699
00:30:18,729 --> 00:30:20,644
And I was reading those notes
like, "Oh, my God,

700
00:30:20,688 --> 00:30:23,865
they're part of the," you know,
"the Gangster Disciples!"

701
00:30:23,909 --> 00:30:25,867
I actually thought
I wouldn't see 18.

702
00:30:25,911 --> 00:30:28,130
Well, you're gonna end in jail
for the rest of your life

703
00:30:28,174 --> 00:30:29,349
or you're gonna be--

704
00:30:29,392 --> 00:30:30,524
you're gonna be
under six feet deep

705
00:30:30,567 --> 00:30:31,917
in the graveyard.

706
00:30:34,789 --> 00:30:36,182
ARSHAY: There was no
accountability,

707
00:30:36,225 --> 00:30:39,881
so I missed 60 days
of my eighth grade year.

708
00:30:43,102 --> 00:30:44,886
I walk into the hallway,

709
00:30:44,930 --> 00:30:46,322
and the history teacher
was there.

710
00:30:46,366 --> 00:30:49,238
And he stepped in front of me
with his arms folded.

711
00:30:49,282 --> 00:30:53,068
And he was like, "You're gonna
die before you're 18, if that."

712
00:30:54,983 --> 00:30:58,204
There was this statistic
that all teachers would say--

713
00:30:58,247 --> 00:30:59,509
on the West Side,

714
00:30:59,553 --> 00:31:01,076
one out of every three
young men

715
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,557
will die before they're 18.

716
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:04,863
And I believe it.

717
00:31:07,213 --> 00:31:08,475
ISAAC: I think for Arshay,

718
00:31:08,518 --> 00:31:10,694
he pretty much said
to his self,

719
00:31:10,738 --> 00:31:13,393
"I'm not--I'm not gonna die
like this."

720
00:31:17,179 --> 00:31:19,965
What contribute
to my mother's addiction

721
00:31:20,008 --> 00:31:22,054
is the trauma
that she had growing up.

722
00:31:24,317 --> 00:31:25,796
Can I take a break?

723
00:31:26,972 --> 00:31:30,584
My grandfather wasn't
the nicest man.

724
00:31:30,627 --> 00:31:32,325
The violence that he saw

725
00:31:32,368 --> 00:31:34,762
somehow made him
a angry and violent man.

726
00:31:34,805 --> 00:31:36,503
It was this generational curse

727
00:31:36,546 --> 00:31:40,289
that started many years ago
as a result of--of slavery.

728
00:31:40,333 --> 00:31:42,639
I was eight years old,

729
00:31:42,683 --> 00:31:44,554
and he start touching me,

730
00:31:44,598 --> 00:31:46,774
but I didn't understand,
you know?

731
00:31:47,993 --> 00:31:49,472
Sometimes
when I talk about it,

732
00:31:49,516 --> 00:31:50,952
it makes me angry,

733
00:31:50,996 --> 00:31:54,869
or, uh, um,
it makes me want to cry,

734
00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:57,959
but, you know, umm...

735
00:31:58,003 --> 00:32:01,006
He actually raped my mother.

736
00:32:01,049 --> 00:32:02,921
Till I got 21.

737
00:32:02,964 --> 00:32:05,532
She expected her daddy
to be her protector.

738
00:32:05,575 --> 00:32:09,666
1,821 days.

739
00:32:12,017 --> 00:32:14,541
My mother didn't want
to feel anymore.

740
00:32:14,584 --> 00:32:19,111
It got to the point
that I wanted to kill myself.

741
00:32:19,154 --> 00:32:24,507
I might as well end it
because I'm not a good mom.

742
00:32:24,551 --> 00:32:25,856
She said to herself,

743
00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:26,988
"I'm just gonna walk
right into the street.

744
00:32:27,032 --> 00:32:28,947
This is it for me."

745
00:32:28,990 --> 00:32:30,513
And as she was walking
down the street,

746
00:32:30,557 --> 00:32:33,734
this guy gave her this flyer
that said "Victory Outreach,"

747
00:32:33,777 --> 00:32:37,738
and she checked into this
recovery home for women.

748
00:32:37,781 --> 00:32:40,523
I would never visit her.
I didn't believe in change.

749
00:32:40,567 --> 00:32:43,135
I didn't believe in God.
I didn't believe in anything.

750
00:32:43,178 --> 00:32:44,963
He was angry.

751
00:32:45,006 --> 00:32:47,269
My grandmother
made me go one day.

752
00:32:47,313 --> 00:32:50,577
I see my mom singing,
and she was so beautiful.

753
00:32:52,405 --> 00:32:55,060
I had never seen her
look like that before.

754
00:32:56,496 --> 00:32:58,846
That right there made me
believe there was a God,

755
00:32:58,889 --> 00:33:01,501
you know,
and He answer prayers.

756
00:33:01,544 --> 00:33:04,460
God did a wonderful thing
with my mother.

757
00:33:06,071 --> 00:33:08,943
I am most proud of my family

758
00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:12,555
for being a family that was
once bound by drugs

759
00:33:12,599 --> 00:33:13,992
and a part of a gang

760
00:33:14,035 --> 00:33:16,211
and now every single person
has changed.

761
00:33:16,255 --> 00:33:17,691
Every person.

762
00:33:29,703 --> 00:33:33,359
[police siren blares]

763
00:33:36,449 --> 00:33:39,843
Bringing Preston up
on the West Side,

764
00:33:39,887 --> 00:33:42,716
it was kind of hard
keeping him out of the streets.

765
00:33:46,502 --> 00:33:48,852
She's always been a hustler.

766
00:33:48,896 --> 00:33:51,638
She passed that down to me.

767
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,688
The most difficult obstacle
my son have in his life

768
00:33:58,732 --> 00:34:00,647
would be me doing drugs.

769
00:34:01,735 --> 00:34:03,606
She sold drugs
right out the front door

770
00:34:03,650 --> 00:34:05,608
and the back door
of my house.

771
00:34:05,652 --> 00:34:08,698
The worst thing I could have
ever did in my life.

772
00:34:08,742 --> 00:34:11,092
I seen her make a lot of money,
I seen her lose a lot of money.

773
00:34:11,136 --> 00:34:13,790
I overdid it

774
00:34:13,834 --> 00:34:17,446
and owed the person that I was
selling drugs some money.

775
00:34:19,361 --> 00:34:21,102
So he came into the household,

776
00:34:21,146 --> 00:34:23,670
actually put his hand
on my son.

777
00:34:25,150 --> 00:34:27,674
It woke me up. Reality check.

778
00:34:27,717 --> 00:34:29,458
It's so crazy

779
00:34:29,502 --> 00:34:31,634
'cause she didn't go to jail
for selling drugs.

780
00:34:31,678 --> 00:34:33,680
She went to jail
for doing drugs.

781
00:34:33,723 --> 00:34:35,421
I was incarcerated,

782
00:34:35,464 --> 00:34:38,250
the best thing that could have
ever happened to me in my life.

783
00:34:38,293 --> 00:34:39,903
When she came back,

784
00:34:39,947 --> 00:34:42,036
she had built
a relationship with God.

785
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,866
Came home clean.
Haven't looked back.

786
00:34:47,824 --> 00:34:50,740
I was really heavy
into the streets--

787
00:34:50,784 --> 00:34:53,482
selling drugs, gangbanging.

788
00:34:53,526 --> 00:34:56,137
I didn't have enough time
to do both.

789
00:34:56,181 --> 00:34:58,748
And the streets was
calling, man.

790
00:34:58,792 --> 00:35:01,795
I left school and--
and left the team

791
00:35:01,838 --> 00:35:03,797
to become a full-time
street pharmacist,

792
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,843
which basically mean me
selling drugs on the streets.

793
00:35:06,887 --> 00:35:11,021
It was like,
if she can do it, I can do it.

794
00:35:11,065 --> 00:35:14,068
You don't want
to go down this road.

795
00:35:14,112 --> 00:35:15,678
I went down it for you,

796
00:35:15,722 --> 00:35:18,725
so why should you have to make
my mistakes over again?

797
00:35:23,077 --> 00:35:26,863
Most difficult obstacle that
I've had to overcome is myself,

798
00:35:26,907 --> 00:35:28,213
making a lot of bad decisions

799
00:35:28,256 --> 00:35:30,258
that altered
the course of my life.

800
00:35:30,302 --> 00:35:34,175
I'm a smart guy, but I still
tend to make bad decisions

801
00:35:34,219 --> 00:35:35,872
that not only affect me,

802
00:35:35,916 --> 00:35:37,526
it affects the people
around me.

803
00:35:37,570 --> 00:35:39,528
At this point, it's just me
being smarter, man,

804
00:35:39,572 --> 00:35:42,140
just--just knowing better
and doing better.

805
00:35:54,674 --> 00:35:58,504
The most difficult obstacle
I had to overcome?

806
00:35:58,547 --> 00:35:59,766
My father.

807
00:36:01,028 --> 00:36:02,899
Some of the racist teachings
that I was taught.

808
00:36:02,943 --> 00:36:07,339
My father instilled
a lot of his racism in us.

809
00:36:07,382 --> 00:36:09,384
I still deal with it
to this day.

810
00:36:09,428 --> 00:36:11,169
You know, our parents,
coming from the South,

811
00:36:11,212 --> 00:36:14,476
experienced racism
on a different level.

812
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,174
They were what you call
sharecroppers.

813
00:36:18,959 --> 00:36:22,615
I didn't like the way
we was treated in the South--

814
00:36:22,658 --> 00:36:25,922
being abused,
being mistreated,

815
00:36:25,966 --> 00:36:30,362
and fear
from the white peoples.

816
00:36:30,405 --> 00:36:31,928
[laughing]

817
00:36:31,972 --> 00:36:36,455
They would come and ride around
in their big trucks

818
00:36:36,498 --> 00:36:39,240
with all those
high-powered rifles

819
00:36:39,284 --> 00:36:42,112
to make the Black peoples
afraid of them

820
00:36:42,156 --> 00:36:46,247
and make them feel inferiors.

821
00:36:46,291 --> 00:36:49,207
So they experienced
a lot of racism growing up.

822
00:36:51,644 --> 00:36:54,168
Malcolm wanted to be
his own self.

823
00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:55,474
I was having problems at home.

824
00:36:57,258 --> 00:37:00,261
I got called down
to the school a lots.

825
00:37:00,305 --> 00:37:02,698
He stayed in trouble,
all the time.

826
00:37:02,742 --> 00:37:05,788
Everybody would follow him.

827
00:37:05,832 --> 00:37:09,705
Whatever Malcolm said do,
they would do it.

828
00:37:09,749 --> 00:37:13,231
His mind is so--so advanced.

829
00:37:13,274 --> 00:37:16,103
He thinks very well,
very fast.

830
00:37:16,146 --> 00:37:20,586
KEN: I mean, he was intelligent,
funny, and charismatic.

831
00:37:20,629 --> 00:37:23,110
He could be the kid
that could really, you know,

832
00:37:23,153 --> 00:37:24,720
row at an Ivy League School.

833
00:37:24,764 --> 00:37:27,549
I wind up
getting kicked out of Manley.

834
00:37:27,593 --> 00:37:29,072
Because of, you know,

835
00:37:29,116 --> 00:37:30,813
the poverty
where we was living in,

836
00:37:30,857 --> 00:37:32,641
I chose to go to the streets.

837
00:37:32,685 --> 00:37:34,817
Started selling drugs
and hustling

838
00:37:34,861 --> 00:37:37,037
to provide for myself.

839
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,345
I always prayed for my boys
to get out of the gang,

840
00:37:40,388 --> 00:37:42,477
get out of what they was in.

841
00:37:42,521 --> 00:37:44,174
One day, God told me

842
00:37:44,218 --> 00:37:46,481
that He was gonna remove them
out of the gang

843
00:37:46,525 --> 00:37:48,570
but in His own time.

844
00:37:48,614 --> 00:37:50,268
And I really questioned God.

845
00:37:50,311 --> 00:37:54,141
I said, "Now, how long
is this gonna take?"

846
00:38:09,678 --> 00:38:13,987
The Michigan race was going
so well at first.

847
00:38:14,030 --> 00:38:16,990
♪ Whoa-oa-oa-oa

848
00:38:17,033 --> 00:38:19,427
ARSHAY: Our last race--
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

849
00:38:20,646 --> 00:38:23,039
ALVIN:
We were strong. We was fast.

850
00:38:23,083 --> 00:38:25,346
And we in first place
the whole time.

851
00:38:25,390 --> 00:38:27,348
We was pulling so hard.

852
00:38:27,392 --> 00:38:29,219
I think we can, I think we can.

853
00:38:29,263 --> 00:38:30,830
We left everybody.

854
00:38:30,873 --> 00:38:32,919
It was like they was just
standing still.

855
00:38:35,704 --> 00:38:40,230
200 meters left,
and Arshay once again--

856
00:38:40,274 --> 00:38:42,450
[laughs]--
the story of our lives--

857
00:38:42,494 --> 00:38:44,017
catches a crab.

858
00:38:44,060 --> 00:38:45,714
Oh, no!

859
00:38:45,758 --> 00:38:47,716
I was just like,
"Goddamn it."

860
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:48,761
[laughs]

861
00:38:48,804 --> 00:38:50,589
And I see the first boat pass.

862
00:38:50,632 --> 00:38:53,287
The second boat pass. "No!"

863
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:56,116
I'm yelling at Arshay,
"Come on, man, come on!"

864
00:38:56,159 --> 00:38:57,378
ARSHAY: And I got myself
back together,

865
00:38:57,422 --> 00:38:58,858
and we got into third place.

866
00:38:58,901 --> 00:39:01,730
I know if Arshay never
caught that crab,

867
00:39:01,774 --> 00:39:03,558
then we would've been
in the papers

868
00:39:03,602 --> 00:39:05,604
for winning that--that race.

869
00:39:08,128 --> 00:39:10,086
I was crushed.

870
00:39:10,130 --> 00:39:12,741
Alvin put his hand
on my shoulders,

871
00:39:12,785 --> 00:39:14,221
and he was like,
"It's okay."

872
00:39:14,264 --> 00:39:16,049
We still beat people.

873
00:39:16,092 --> 00:39:17,398
We didn't give up.

874
00:39:17,442 --> 00:39:19,574
It was probably
pretty eye-opening

875
00:39:19,618 --> 00:39:21,010
for the people at the regatta

876
00:39:21,054 --> 00:39:24,492
to see this group come in
and row really well.

877
00:39:24,536 --> 00:39:26,407
There's a switch that goes off

878
00:39:26,451 --> 00:39:29,323
that kind of says
you're included,

879
00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:31,151
you're just as good
as everybody else.

880
00:39:31,194 --> 00:39:34,110
Imagine if we was doing this
the whole three years.

881
00:39:34,154 --> 00:39:37,766
We'd have probably killed
all these guys out there.

882
00:39:37,810 --> 00:39:41,379
I felt like the program
was kind of a failure.

883
00:39:42,945 --> 00:39:45,948
Financially,
the program was a disaster.

884
00:39:45,992 --> 00:39:47,341
We didn't win.

885
00:39:47,385 --> 00:39:49,256
The kids didn't go to college.

886
00:39:49,299 --> 00:39:51,737
We didn't get the kids
into college.

887
00:39:51,780 --> 00:39:55,784
So I felt
like all these lofty goals

888
00:39:55,828 --> 00:39:58,134
and expectations we had
for the program

889
00:39:58,178 --> 00:39:59,658
didn't come into fruition.

890
00:40:04,489 --> 00:40:08,144
I am holding the boys
in 1998

891
00:40:08,188 --> 00:40:10,451
when they did
their first rowing.

892
00:40:10,495 --> 00:40:13,976
We're looking at Arshay
right here

893
00:40:14,020 --> 00:40:16,370
and Preston right here.

894
00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:18,807
It just was
a overwhelming feeling

895
00:40:18,851 --> 00:40:20,461
for a mother in that time

896
00:40:20,505 --> 00:40:25,118
for a child
in such a bad area

897
00:40:25,161 --> 00:40:26,946
to be doing
something positive,

898
00:40:26,989 --> 00:40:28,991
so I was proud.

899
00:40:31,037 --> 00:40:32,604
ARSHAY:
We were in the paper,

900
00:40:32,647 --> 00:40:35,998
not just for being the first
Black high school rowing team,

901
00:40:36,042 --> 00:40:39,654
but because we were also taking
entrepreneurship classes.

902
00:40:39,698 --> 00:40:42,048
We learned about the economy.

903
00:40:42,091 --> 00:40:45,094
How to open up bank accounts

904
00:40:45,138 --> 00:40:46,400
'cause coming up
where we come from,

905
00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:47,662
you save money,
you put it in a shoebox,

906
00:40:47,706 --> 00:40:48,924
and put it under your bed.

907
00:40:48,968 --> 00:40:50,883
Ken taught me
how to be an entrepreneur.

908
00:40:50,926 --> 00:40:52,450
Controlling our own destiny.

909
00:40:52,493 --> 00:40:54,452
I started a moving company.

910
00:40:54,495 --> 00:40:56,018
Yo!

911
00:40:56,062 --> 00:40:58,847
I'm really prideful
about my business, you know.

912
00:40:58,891 --> 00:41:00,893
This--
It means everything to me.

913
00:41:00,936 --> 00:41:03,722
Some of these guys
can't find jobs.

914
00:41:03,765 --> 00:41:06,333
Some of the guys can't read
the application.

915
00:41:06,376 --> 00:41:08,117
But anybody
who want to work

916
00:41:08,161 --> 00:41:11,120
who's able to work,
they find a home with me.

917
00:41:11,164 --> 00:41:14,863
Be ready to hop in this truck
and get my drive on.

918
00:41:14,907 --> 00:41:16,386
I partnered up
with a brother of mine.

919
00:41:16,430 --> 00:41:17,692
Me and him went in together

920
00:41:17,736 --> 00:41:19,259
and invested
in a couple of dump trucks.

921
00:41:19,302 --> 00:41:20,434
That's what I do now.

922
00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:22,915
Never thought
I'd be in a position

923
00:41:22,958 --> 00:41:24,307
to start employing people,

924
00:41:24,351 --> 00:41:28,398
but, you know,
weirder things has happened.

925
00:41:28,442 --> 00:41:31,663
This is my desk.

926
00:41:33,578 --> 00:41:37,016
This is my book Suga Water,
a memoir.

927
00:41:37,059 --> 00:41:39,409
These are letters

928
00:41:39,453 --> 00:41:42,195
from high school students
who have read my book.

929
00:41:42,238 --> 00:41:45,720
Mainly my job is, uh,
community engagement,

930
00:41:45,764 --> 00:41:46,895
finding young people,

931
00:41:46,939 --> 00:41:48,244
getting them
to going to college.

932
00:41:48,288 --> 00:41:49,724
I just recently took

933
00:41:49,768 --> 00:41:53,162
my Chicago Illinois
State Board Barbers exam,

934
00:41:53,206 --> 00:41:54,642
and I passed that,

935
00:41:54,686 --> 00:41:57,297
so I am officially a licensed
barber, and I love it.

936
00:41:58,603 --> 00:42:01,127
I was wrong
about it being an epic fail.

937
00:42:01,170 --> 00:42:04,043
I was amazed at, you know,

938
00:42:04,086 --> 00:42:06,959
how many of those kids
had become entrepreneurs.

939
00:42:08,613 --> 00:42:09,788
Ken didn't even know

940
00:42:09,831 --> 00:42:11,790
some of the things
that he taught us.

941
00:42:11,833 --> 00:42:14,096
He's definitely
something special, man.

942
00:42:14,140 --> 00:42:15,620
Still is to this day.

943
00:42:22,888 --> 00:42:25,020
COMMON: The guys
hung up their oars

944
00:42:25,064 --> 00:42:27,719
and got on
with the business of living

945
00:42:27,762 --> 00:42:31,244
and, for some of them,
the business of dying.

946
00:42:35,291 --> 00:42:38,947
ARSHAY: Mike's death came
as a total surprise.

947
00:42:38,991 --> 00:42:40,906
Some of us went
to his service,

948
00:42:40,949 --> 00:42:43,125
which was held
at a Irish Bar.

949
00:42:43,169 --> 00:42:45,214
Perfect for O'Gorman.

950
00:42:47,390 --> 00:42:50,829
Afterwards, we all met up
at Preston's barbershop.

951
00:42:52,657 --> 00:42:54,659
- Yo. What's up?
- Yo.

952
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,534
[chatter]

953
00:43:02,318 --> 00:43:04,277
- It's what's her name.
- Yo.

954
00:43:05,539 --> 00:43:09,325
Man, I ain't seen you guys
since what? 80 pounds ago.

955
00:43:09,369 --> 00:43:11,197
[laughter]

956
00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:13,852
It's good to see everybody,
you know what I'm saying?

957
00:43:13,895 --> 00:43:15,505
For the last 20 years,
Preston will say,

958
00:43:15,549 --> 00:43:17,507
"Man, I--I wish
I wouldn't have left"

959
00:43:17,551 --> 00:43:20,075
or "I can go back
and do this again."

960
00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:22,295
The water was like a sense
of peace for us, man.

961
00:43:22,338 --> 00:43:24,036
- Yeah.
- You know what I'm saying?

962
00:43:24,079 --> 00:43:25,211
Like, man.

963
00:43:25,254 --> 00:43:27,561
You guys became,
like, brothers to me.

964
00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:29,171
I was an only child.

965
00:43:29,215 --> 00:43:32,784
My mom was murdered
when I was nine months.

966
00:43:32,827 --> 00:43:35,395
You were my big brothers.
You feel me?

967
00:43:35,438 --> 00:43:37,266
Having brothers like y'all
around me,

968
00:43:37,310 --> 00:43:39,529
that was the only thing
that was close to me.

969
00:43:39,573 --> 00:43:41,662
We stuck together,
and we had that experience,

970
00:43:41,706 --> 00:43:43,403
and I think that's
something that, you know,

971
00:43:43,446 --> 00:43:46,188
I don't hear a lot of guys
that look like us talk about.

972
00:43:46,232 --> 00:43:48,190
Every time we got out there
to work as a team,

973
00:43:48,234 --> 00:43:49,539
you know what I'm saying,

974
00:43:49,583 --> 00:43:51,106
we collectively came together.
It was cool.

975
00:43:51,150 --> 00:43:53,195
I made it cool
for to join the rowing team.

976
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,415
[laughter]

977
00:43:55,458 --> 00:43:57,330
I made it cool!

978
00:44:02,117 --> 00:44:04,293
We all had a troubled past.

979
00:44:04,337 --> 00:44:07,166
Is it easy to join a gang?

980
00:44:07,209 --> 00:44:09,690
I think it's probably one
of the easiest things

981
00:44:09,734 --> 00:44:11,344
for a young teenager to do.

982
00:44:11,387 --> 00:44:14,956
Gangs was like the culture.
It was like hip-hop.

983
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,002
They had all the women.
They had all the money.

984
00:44:17,045 --> 00:44:19,308
They had all the power.
They controlled everything.

985
00:44:19,352 --> 00:44:20,875
So there wasn't nothing else
I wanted to be.

986
00:44:20,919 --> 00:44:22,442
It was just like waking up,

987
00:44:22,485 --> 00:44:24,705
brushing your teeth,
and changing your clothes.

988
00:44:24,749 --> 00:44:26,881
ALVIN: If I can go
back in time,

989
00:44:26,925 --> 00:44:29,797
I definitely would have
left the street life,

990
00:44:29,841 --> 00:44:32,191
the gang life, alone.

991
00:44:32,234 --> 00:44:35,542
How do we help change
that gang culture?

992
00:44:35,585 --> 00:44:36,891
How do we get young people
out of it?

993
00:44:36,935 --> 00:44:39,764
How do we tell them
that there's a better way?

994
00:44:39,807 --> 00:44:42,027
The moment they ain't busy,

995
00:44:42,070 --> 00:44:43,550
they're gonna go
to the streets,

996
00:44:43,593 --> 00:44:46,205
point blank, because there
ain't nothing else to do.

997
00:44:46,248 --> 00:44:49,469
When they shut down the YMCAs,
I went to the streets.

998
00:44:49,512 --> 00:44:52,167
That's when I started
selling drugs.

999
00:44:52,211 --> 00:44:53,821
The lessons you learn
from rowing--

1000
00:44:53,865 --> 00:44:57,433
teamwork, work ethic,
being a leader, success--

1001
00:44:57,477 --> 00:45:00,219
if you can give
those same, uh,

1002
00:45:00,262 --> 00:45:02,003
tools of rowing
to young people,

1003
00:45:02,047 --> 00:45:03,570
even if they don't
win a medal,

1004
00:45:03,613 --> 00:45:04,919
they become
the next generation

1005
00:45:04,963 --> 00:45:06,312
that will be leaders.

1006
00:45:06,355 --> 00:45:08,183
I don't know
about the rest of y'all,

1007
00:45:08,227 --> 00:45:11,012
but I'd love to go back to it
just for a day.

1008
00:45:11,056 --> 00:45:12,405
We should just do
a reunion race.

1009
00:45:15,190 --> 00:45:17,279
It's gonna be real
inspirational for these kids

1010
00:45:17,323 --> 00:45:18,977
to see us 20 years later,

1011
00:45:19,020 --> 00:45:21,762
come back and actually
fight to win a race.

1012
00:45:21,806 --> 00:45:23,329
Feel like we're finishing
something

1013
00:45:23,372 --> 00:45:25,853
that we should have did
a long time ago.

1014
00:45:25,897 --> 00:45:27,289
I think it's important

1015
00:45:27,333 --> 00:45:30,379
that more young
African-American boys and girls

1016
00:45:30,423 --> 00:45:32,077
see us in a boat

1017
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,167
and us go back to the sport
that changed our lives.

1018
00:45:35,210 --> 00:45:36,864
For me, that's winning.

1019
00:45:36,908 --> 00:45:38,779
Wildcats! Wildcats!

1020
00:45:38,823 --> 00:45:40,868
So they decided to do it,

1021
00:45:40,912 --> 00:45:44,306
race once more
at the Chicago Sprints.

1022
00:45:44,350 --> 00:45:47,788
They all had different reasons
for getting back in the boat.

1023
00:45:49,703 --> 00:45:52,314
Preston always said
he wanted to go back in time

1024
00:45:52,358 --> 00:45:54,229
to undo his mistakes.

1025
00:45:57,580 --> 00:45:59,669
Malcolm is racing
for his son,

1026
00:45:59,713 --> 00:46:01,541
to show him another way.

1027
00:46:03,761 --> 00:46:06,067
Alvin's racing
to celebrate the fact

1028
00:46:06,111 --> 00:46:09,723
that he's still alive,
that he's still here.

1029
00:46:11,594 --> 00:46:14,293
Pookie says he wants to win,
but really,

1030
00:46:14,336 --> 00:46:16,817
he just doesn't want
to run into that brick wall.

1031
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,083
Arshay's doing this to show
kids in the neighborhood

1032
00:46:22,127 --> 00:46:24,651
that they can't
move forward alone,

1033
00:46:24,694 --> 00:46:26,609
that to break the cycle,

1034
00:46:26,653 --> 00:46:30,048
they have to move together
as one.

1035
00:46:34,748 --> 00:46:39,666
♪♪♪

1036
00:46:39,709 --> 00:46:41,929
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

1037
00:46:41,973 --> 00:46:43,713
The erg machine came.

1038
00:46:43,757 --> 00:46:46,847
Oh, yeah. Training start
today, Arshay.

1039
00:46:46,891 --> 00:46:48,893
We're about to get
this workout in.

1040
00:46:48,936 --> 00:46:51,156
- Already there.
- It's been 20-plus years.

1041
00:46:51,199 --> 00:46:54,202
20-plus years.

1042
00:46:54,246 --> 00:46:56,204
I feel like the Tin Man.

1043
00:46:56,248 --> 00:46:58,598
ARSHAY:
Chicago Sprints, here we come.

1044
00:46:58,641 --> 00:47:04,430
♪♪♪

1045
00:47:10,828 --> 00:47:12,699
[chatter]

1046
00:47:12,742 --> 00:47:15,136
All the fellas decided

1047
00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:17,573
to step on the scale
and weigh theyself.

1048
00:47:17,617 --> 00:47:19,227
Ugh, dude, 180.

1049
00:47:19,271 --> 00:47:20,489
It wasn't good.

1050
00:47:20,533 --> 00:47:23,536
If you put a stem
on top of Arshay's head,

1051
00:47:23,579 --> 00:47:25,103
he'll look like a pear.

1052
00:47:26,582 --> 00:47:29,585
Preston, he's pretty light,

1053
00:47:29,629 --> 00:47:31,457
but he's the skinniest
fat person

1054
00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:33,415
I ever met in my life.

1055
00:47:33,459 --> 00:47:37,593
Myself?
I weighed in at 260.

1056
00:47:37,637 --> 00:47:41,467
Not good at all,
but we're on a mission now.

1057
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:44,905
♪ Uh, let's do the math

1058
00:47:44,949 --> 00:47:47,647
♪ How we make it tough
to subtract and not to add ♪

1059
00:47:47,690 --> 00:47:51,390
♪ So right to your brother
barrels, a bunch of crabs ♪

1060
00:47:51,433 --> 00:47:53,696
♪ Sometimes it feel like
the ghetto is all we have ♪

1061
00:47:53,740 --> 00:47:57,004
♪ See, it's hard how we livin',
need something different ♪

1062
00:47:57,048 --> 00:47:59,702
♪ One day
it's gonna change, uh ♪

1063
00:47:59,746 --> 00:48:01,922
♪ Till it's love
that we feeling ♪

1064
00:48:01,966 --> 00:48:03,271
♪ Breaking every ceiling

1065
00:48:03,315 --> 00:48:05,883
♪ We got to find
another way, uh ♪

1066
00:48:05,926 --> 00:48:08,929
♪ To live my life, uh,
to live my life, uh ♪

1067
00:48:08,973 --> 00:48:10,583
♪ To live my life...

1068
00:48:11,758 --> 00:48:14,065
ARSHAY: Pookie hadn't coxed
in 20-something years.

1069
00:48:14,108 --> 00:48:15,849
I bet this current
crazy as fuck.

1070
00:48:17,982 --> 00:48:19,070
Your feet okay, Malcolm?

1071
00:48:19,113 --> 00:48:20,462
Okay, slow down, slow down.

1072
00:48:20,506 --> 00:48:23,204
Your feet okay?
Your feet keep popping out?

1073
00:48:24,989 --> 00:48:27,600
Shoes too small.
I can't fit my feet in there.

1074
00:48:27,643 --> 00:48:29,689
They're sliding out
every time he pulls.

1075
00:48:29,732 --> 00:48:31,821
Malcolm catch a crab.

1076
00:48:31,865 --> 00:48:33,649
- Uh-oh.
- Oh, don't--

1077
00:48:33,693 --> 00:48:34,737
Left, left, left.

1078
00:48:34,781 --> 00:48:36,609
Don't let it go.
No, keep it up.

1079
00:48:36,652 --> 00:48:39,046
Keep it up, Malcolm.
No, Malcolm, keep it up!

1080
00:48:39,090 --> 00:48:42,832
Sometimes you almost see your
life flash before your eyes,

1081
00:48:42,876 --> 00:48:45,792
and you start telling yourself,
"The hell with this, man!"

1082
00:48:45,835 --> 00:48:48,664
It's not funny.
It's not funny, bro.

1083
00:48:48,708 --> 00:48:51,102
You know, these games start
playing in your head,

1084
00:48:51,145 --> 00:48:52,712
like, "Dude, what the hell
you doing in a boat?

1085
00:48:52,755 --> 00:48:53,713
You're 40!"

1086
00:48:53,756 --> 00:48:55,149
[laughter]

1087
00:48:55,193 --> 00:48:57,021
I had to get myself,
you know,

1088
00:48:57,064 --> 00:48:58,370
I had to calm myself down,

1089
00:48:58,413 --> 00:49:00,328
and it had nothing to do
with none of you guys.

1090
00:49:00,372 --> 00:49:01,939
You get in those boats
now man,

1091
00:49:01,982 --> 00:49:03,941
and you're thinking, okay,
I fall out this boat,

1092
00:49:03,984 --> 00:49:06,247
I got five people looking
at me for dinner

1093
00:49:06,291 --> 00:49:07,640
and I can't provide it,

1094
00:49:07,683 --> 00:49:08,902
you know what I'm saying?
Like--

1095
00:49:08,946 --> 00:49:12,819
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

1096
00:49:12,862 --> 00:49:14,908
Fuck.

1097
00:49:17,867 --> 00:49:21,175
ARSHAY: Our first time back
in the boat was not good.

1098
00:49:21,219 --> 00:49:23,221
We got to up our game.

1099
00:49:23,264 --> 00:49:26,050
So I had this crazy-ass idea.

1100
00:49:26,093 --> 00:49:27,703
Who better to help us

1101
00:49:27,747 --> 00:49:29,618
than the U.S. Olympic
Rowing Coach--

1102
00:49:29,662 --> 00:49:32,186
the one and only Mike Teti?

1103
00:49:32,230 --> 00:49:34,667
♪ I say first and foremost,
your boy, I made it ♪

1104
00:49:34,710 --> 00:49:36,408
♪ Ha, I was like that
because of street... ♪

1105
00:49:36,451 --> 00:49:38,714
The guy's
a three-time Olympian,

1106
00:49:38,758 --> 00:49:40,673
a total stud.

1107
00:49:40,716 --> 00:49:42,414
When I told Mike
that we were trying

1108
00:49:42,457 --> 00:49:43,937
to show the kids
from the neighborhood

1109
00:49:43,981 --> 00:49:46,026
another way out
with the sport of rowing,

1110
00:49:46,070 --> 00:49:47,288
Mike was all in.

1111
00:49:47,332 --> 00:49:48,507
♪ I'm, like, down with it,
uh, yo ♪

1112
00:49:48,550 --> 00:49:50,204
He invited us
to train with him

1113
00:49:50,248 --> 00:49:52,032
in San Francisco.

1114
00:49:52,076 --> 00:49:54,252
When he answered that call
and he said, "I'm down,"

1115
00:49:54,295 --> 00:49:56,384
I was so excited,
I called the guys right away.

1116
00:49:56,428 --> 00:49:58,038
They was like,
"We don't even know who he is,

1117
00:49:58,082 --> 00:49:59,257
but yes, let's do it."

1118
00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:01,041
Mike Teti,
we're coming for you.

1119
00:50:01,085 --> 00:50:03,391
Yes, sir! Large and in charge,
Big Malcolm.

1120
00:50:03,435 --> 00:50:05,176
We're here, baby.
San Francisco.

1121
00:50:05,219 --> 00:50:07,439
On our way to get in these boats
and do our thing.

1122
00:50:07,482 --> 00:50:08,483
Get this work, baby.

1123
00:50:08,527 --> 00:50:10,224
♪ ...tonight

1124
00:50:10,268 --> 00:50:14,054
♪ We're just trying
to catch our feelings tonight ♪

1125
00:50:14,098 --> 00:50:15,403
All right, man, hey.

1126
00:50:15,447 --> 00:50:16,535
- What's up, man?
- Good to see you!

1127
00:50:16,578 --> 00:50:18,102
We're nervous,
but we good to go.

1128
00:50:18,145 --> 00:50:19,320
- Nervous?
- Excited.

1129
00:50:19,364 --> 00:50:21,061
We get to get coached
by the legend,

1130
00:50:21,105 --> 00:50:22,584
- so...
- Yeah, well,

1131
00:50:22,628 --> 00:50:25,065
be prepared to be
severely underwhelmed,

1132
00:50:25,109 --> 00:50:27,981
okay? Did you get
them all warmed up?

1133
00:50:30,549 --> 00:50:32,029
Okay, ready? Go.

1134
00:50:33,334 --> 00:50:35,728
We don't want to complicate it.
It's only rowing.

1135
00:50:35,771 --> 00:50:37,991
It doesn't have to be perfect,

1136
00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:39,993
just approximately correct.

1137
00:50:41,386 --> 00:50:43,823
♪ As my days get harder

1138
00:50:43,866 --> 00:50:46,565
♪ And my days get longer

1139
00:50:46,608 --> 00:50:49,089
♪ I'll find waves
in the water ♪

1140
00:50:49,133 --> 00:50:52,179
♪ I'll make my way
in this water ♪

1141
00:50:52,223 --> 00:50:53,833
♪ Look, you know
we need you, dealer ♪

1142
00:50:53,876 --> 00:50:55,226
♪ Bein' a OG

1143
00:50:55,269 --> 00:50:57,967
♪ Thank God my OG's
took time to show me ♪

1144
00:50:58,011 --> 00:51:00,144
♪ I was a flower
and then how to grow me ♪

1145
00:51:00,187 --> 00:51:01,449
♪ And some did both

1146
00:51:01,493 --> 00:51:02,885
♪ As they would try
to console me ♪

1147
00:51:02,929 --> 00:51:04,409
♪ Some of my homies
from childhood ♪

1148
00:51:04,452 --> 00:51:05,801
♪ Grew up lonely

1149
00:51:05,845 --> 00:51:07,107
♪ Only told us to hoop,
now they shoot ♪

1150
00:51:07,151 --> 00:51:08,804
♪ Like they're Kobe,
'cause, man ♪

1151
00:51:08,848 --> 00:51:10,806
♪ The streets are changing,
nigga, that shit different ♪

1152
00:51:10,850 --> 00:51:13,287
♪ Especially when they don't
counsel, just detention ♪

1153
00:51:13,331 --> 00:51:15,637
♪ Dropped out, had to bounce
so many suspensions ♪

1154
00:51:15,681 --> 00:51:18,336
♪ Potential dean's list
now turned into a hit list ♪

1155
00:51:18,379 --> 00:51:20,642
♪ Failed school, and so now
you turned to a misfit ♪

1156
00:51:20,686 --> 00:51:22,122
♪ Strafe used to jump

1157
00:51:22,166 --> 00:51:23,819
♪ Gates could have made
an Olympian player ♪

1158
00:51:23,863 --> 00:51:25,647
♪ So I'm different
'cause they don't know ♪

1159
00:51:25,691 --> 00:51:28,302
♪ The ones who came from boats
create the wave, you know ♪

1160
00:51:28,346 --> 00:51:29,608
♪ Used to hate the water

1161
00:51:29,651 --> 00:51:30,826
♪ But now we row
gently down the stream ♪

1162
00:51:30,870 --> 00:51:32,176
♪ Life is but a dream

1163
00:51:32,219 --> 00:51:33,612
♪ When it's fueled
by your self-esteem ♪

1164
00:51:33,655 --> 00:51:35,222
♪ As my days get harder

1165
00:51:35,266 --> 00:51:36,484
MIKE: a little bit lighter.

1166
00:51:36,528 --> 00:51:38,660
♪ And my days get longer

1167
00:51:38,704 --> 00:51:41,010
♪ I'll find waves
in the water ♪

1168
00:51:41,054 --> 00:51:43,012
♪ I'll make my way
in this water ♪

1169
00:51:43,056 --> 00:51:44,666
We need some finesse
from you, Alvin.

1170
00:51:44,710 --> 00:51:45,928
[laughter]

1171
00:51:45,972 --> 00:51:47,495
You bench pressing
refrigerators, bro.

1172
00:51:47,539 --> 00:51:49,541
We need couch,
not refrigerators, a'ight?

1173
00:51:49,584 --> 00:51:50,846
You two big motherfuckers,

1174
00:51:50,890 --> 00:51:52,239
big-arm motherfuckers
back there.

1175
00:51:52,283 --> 00:51:53,849
- [laughs]
- Hey, hey,

1176
00:51:53,893 --> 00:51:57,157
I don't even think Alvin know
how to go soft, you feel me?

1177
00:51:57,201 --> 00:51:59,420
You light-skinned
and hard-headed.

1178
00:51:59,464 --> 00:52:00,726
Bad combination.

1179
00:52:00,769 --> 00:52:02,597
♪ I'll make my way
in this water ♪

1180
00:52:02,641 --> 00:52:03,729
MIKE: Good job, good job.

1181
00:52:03,772 --> 00:52:05,948
♪ As my days get harder

1182
00:52:05,992 --> 00:52:08,255
♪ And my days get longer

1183
00:52:08,299 --> 00:52:09,691
♪ I'll find waves
in the water ♪

1184
00:52:09,735 --> 00:52:10,953
MIKE: Yeah, there you go!

1185
00:52:10,997 --> 00:52:12,520
♪ I'll make my way
in this water ♪

1186
00:52:12,564 --> 00:52:13,521
♪ This water, this water...

1187
00:52:13,565 --> 00:52:15,001
Paddle!

1188
00:52:15,044 --> 00:52:16,176
PRESTON:
All in all, though, man,

1189
00:52:16,220 --> 00:52:17,699
I swear to God,
you was going good, bro,

1190
00:52:17,743 --> 00:52:19,092
'cause it's been 20 years.

1191
00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:21,138
It's go--It's gonna
come together, though.

1192
00:52:26,230 --> 00:52:29,189
MIKE: Honestly,
I was expecting worse.

1193
00:52:29,233 --> 00:52:31,104
ALVIN: We was thinking
the same about you!

1194
00:52:31,148 --> 00:52:36,283
[laughter]

1195
00:52:36,327 --> 00:52:39,112
Before they hit the water,
I was really nervous.

1196
00:52:39,156 --> 00:52:40,374
I think it had been
20 years, maybe,

1197
00:52:40,418 --> 00:52:41,984
since they'd all been
in the boat.

1198
00:52:42,028 --> 00:52:43,421
MIKE:
And I thought, Uh-oh.

1199
00:52:43,464 --> 00:52:45,379
Number one, are they gonna
fit in the boat?

1200
00:52:45,423 --> 00:52:47,251
And number two,
are they gonna be able

1201
00:52:47,294 --> 00:52:48,600
to handle the conditions?

1202
00:52:48,643 --> 00:52:50,079
And you know what?
Flying colors.

1203
00:52:50,123 --> 00:52:51,298
DAVID: I was impressed.

1204
00:52:51,342 --> 00:52:53,344
The boat picked up,
and it was jumping.

1205
00:52:53,387 --> 00:52:54,432
What are we training for here?

1206
00:52:54,475 --> 00:52:55,955
Chicago Sprints, you know.

1207
00:52:55,998 --> 00:52:58,175
It's, um, about 1,000 meters.

1208
00:52:58,218 --> 00:53:00,264
- The skill's good, right?
- The skills are good.

1209
00:53:00,307 --> 00:53:02,091
Skills good. But a little bit
of fitness, maybe?

1210
00:53:02,135 --> 00:53:03,658
Little bit of rowing machine?

1211
00:53:03,702 --> 00:53:06,226
You go out there,
and you give 100%,

1212
00:53:06,270 --> 00:53:08,097
and you come up
a little bit short?

1213
00:53:08,141 --> 00:53:09,925
Hey, your family
will still love you.

1214
00:53:09,969 --> 00:53:11,013
Your girlfriend will still
love you.

1215
00:53:11,057 --> 00:53:13,102
But if you go out there
and win,

1216
00:53:13,146 --> 00:53:14,321
they're gonna love you
just a little bit more.

1217
00:53:14,365 --> 00:53:17,281
[laughter]

1218
00:53:19,544 --> 00:53:20,893
ARSHAY:
It was Malcolm's idea

1219
00:53:20,936 --> 00:53:24,026
to share the sport of rowing
with our kids,

1220
00:53:24,070 --> 00:53:26,246
so when we got
back to Chicago,

1221
00:53:26,290 --> 00:53:28,727
we invited them
to the indoor rowing tanks.

1222
00:53:39,999 --> 00:53:41,261
MALCOLM: My kids are
very proud of me

1223
00:53:41,305 --> 00:53:42,523
for doing this, you know.

1224
00:53:42,567 --> 00:53:44,264
They think
it's a very cool thing.

1225
00:53:44,308 --> 00:53:48,877
Me getting back in this boat
makes me feel like a kid again.

1226
00:53:48,921 --> 00:53:51,097
You know,
everybody have those moments

1227
00:53:51,140 --> 00:53:54,970
where they feel as if they can
do something over again,

1228
00:53:55,014 --> 00:53:58,147
redeem themselves
from the mistakes they made.

1229
00:54:01,020 --> 00:54:04,589
I feel like I want to accomplish
as much as I can

1230
00:54:04,632 --> 00:54:06,199
to show my sons.

1231
00:54:09,028 --> 00:54:11,204
I was raised
in a real rough household,

1232
00:54:11,248 --> 00:54:12,640
you feel me,
that kind of, like,

1233
00:54:12,684 --> 00:54:14,512
blew my opportunities
with rowing.

1234
00:54:16,688 --> 00:54:18,820
No matter how much
I explained to my father

1235
00:54:18,864 --> 00:54:20,735
how much
rowing meant to me,

1236
00:54:20,779 --> 00:54:22,084
he never cared.

1237
00:54:22,128 --> 00:54:24,043
He was like,
"Dude, no, rowing?

1238
00:54:24,086 --> 00:54:25,349
No, get outta my face
with that."

1239
00:54:27,916 --> 00:54:30,136
So, you know,
I kind of felt good

1240
00:54:30,179 --> 00:54:32,791
about being able to get my son
and teach him something

1241
00:54:32,834 --> 00:54:35,707
and for him to be proud
of me teaching it to him.

1242
00:54:38,884 --> 00:54:40,755
I'm just happy
to see that, you know,

1243
00:54:40,799 --> 00:54:42,322
we're starting to create
a group of fathers

1244
00:54:42,366 --> 00:54:43,845
that, you know,
training our kids

1245
00:54:43,889 --> 00:54:45,412
to do things that we did

1246
00:54:45,456 --> 00:54:47,414
and they're proud of it
and proud of us.

1247
00:54:49,808 --> 00:54:51,200
POOKIE: One thing
I seen at the tanks,

1248
00:54:51,244 --> 00:54:54,160
I did love the fact
that the fathers did spend

1249
00:54:54,203 --> 00:54:55,770
that quality time
with their kids

1250
00:54:55,814 --> 00:54:58,817
and the bond that they had,
it meant a lot.

1251
00:55:04,257 --> 00:55:06,041
It hurts my heart
sometimes

1252
00:55:06,085 --> 00:55:09,828
when I see, um, certain
Black fathers as absent.

1253
00:55:09,871 --> 00:55:13,092
It touched my heart to see
us being men out there.

1254
00:55:14,833 --> 00:55:16,008
MALCOLM: Yeah, that's
what it's about, man.

1255
00:55:16,051 --> 00:55:17,314
It's a good thing, man,

1256
00:55:17,357 --> 00:55:18,750
especially coming from
where we come from

1257
00:55:18,793 --> 00:55:20,273
and having the problems
that we had,

1258
00:55:20,317 --> 00:55:21,535
you know, growing up
with our fathers

1259
00:55:21,579 --> 00:55:22,884
and stuff like that, man.

1260
00:55:22,928 --> 00:55:25,191
It's just good to see
the change, you know.

1261
00:55:25,234 --> 00:55:26,845
Things are being
turned around.

1262
00:55:31,850 --> 00:55:33,373
ARSHAY:
What would you go back

1263
00:55:33,417 --> 00:55:36,245
and tell
your 13-year-old self?

1264
00:55:36,289 --> 00:55:38,465
Keep your head in your books,
do what you need to do, man,

1265
00:55:38,509 --> 00:55:39,640
and you're gonna succeed.

1266
00:55:39,684 --> 00:55:41,250
Definitely
be a lot smarter, man.

1267
00:55:41,294 --> 00:55:44,253
Think for myself
and just make better decisions.

1268
00:55:44,297 --> 00:55:45,864
During the time
of me going to school

1269
00:55:45,907 --> 00:55:47,735
to, uh, get my license
for being a barber,

1270
00:55:47,779 --> 00:55:50,782
I just made a--a rushed
and bad decision.

1271
00:55:50,825 --> 00:55:52,087
Money got a little funny,

1272
00:55:52,131 --> 00:55:54,307
and, uh, I was
introduced to some things

1273
00:55:54,351 --> 00:55:58,050
that was possibly, uh, a way
for me to make some quick cash,

1274
00:55:58,093 --> 00:56:00,748
and it kind of went south,
so I was arrested.

1275
00:56:00,792 --> 00:56:03,577
Cook County Correctional
Department wants me

1276
00:56:03,621 --> 00:56:05,536
to serve one year.

1277
00:56:05,579 --> 00:56:08,408
The fact that I'm shooting
this documentary

1278
00:56:08,452 --> 00:56:11,237
is basically what saved me
from being in prison.

1279
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,936
It keeps me
from being incarcerated.

1280
00:56:14,980 --> 00:56:16,851
I can't judge.
I think it was Jay-Z

1281
00:56:16,895 --> 00:56:19,201
who said there's no rules
to feeding your family, right?

1282
00:56:19,245 --> 00:56:20,507
- No.
- Uh,

1283
00:56:20,551 --> 00:56:22,640
and a lot of people
don't understand that,

1284
00:56:22,683 --> 00:56:24,337
but we do.

1285
00:56:24,381 --> 00:56:26,295
I took the plea deal
for one year,

1286
00:56:26,339 --> 00:56:28,385
but they needed me
to be on house arrest,

1287
00:56:28,428 --> 00:56:30,299
which is electronic
monitoring.

1288
00:56:30,343 --> 00:56:32,432
Making bad decisions,

1289
00:56:32,476 --> 00:56:35,392
it leads to this
type of outcome.

1290
00:56:44,009 --> 00:56:45,140
ARSHAY: We were lucky

1291
00:56:45,184 --> 00:56:46,968
that Preston was still
in the boat.

1292
00:56:47,012 --> 00:56:48,840
But with four months
left to go,

1293
00:56:48,883 --> 00:56:51,582
it was time
to kick it into high gear.

1294
00:56:51,625 --> 00:56:53,714
♪ Young boys
on a Black street brainless ♪

1295
00:56:53,758 --> 00:56:55,673
♪ When they bust they shots,
they end quick ♪

1296
00:56:55,716 --> 00:56:57,936
♪ How it feel to be
livin' in the matrix ♪

1297
00:56:57,979 --> 00:56:59,459
♪ When you're feelin'
on the shoulder lane? ♪

1298
00:56:59,503 --> 00:57:00,765
♪ And my whole damn team,
they'll be so damn... ♪

1299
00:57:00,808 --> 00:57:02,984
This workouts are
gonna be serious today.

1300
00:57:03,028 --> 00:57:04,508
♪ ...screamed,
I know how he felt ♪

1301
00:57:04,551 --> 00:57:05,639
♪ How he felt

1302
00:57:05,683 --> 00:57:07,598
So I'm gonna do
some sprints now.

1303
00:57:07,641 --> 00:57:09,382
♪ Just like you,
but we feel like steel ♪

1304
00:57:09,426 --> 00:57:11,340
♪ And the kook with the crew
that we in for the kill ♪

1305
00:57:11,384 --> 00:57:13,342
♪ I want more
for my fam and myself ♪

1306
00:57:13,386 --> 00:57:15,388
♪ Want peace, want love,
want life, want wealth ♪

1307
00:57:15,432 --> 00:57:17,521
♪ I made this, had to fight
for my own, man ♪

1308
00:57:17,564 --> 00:57:19,348
♪ Whether we can stay
when I come for the bell ♪

1309
00:57:19,392 --> 00:57:21,350
♪ Ah, let me know
what it's all for ♪

1310
00:57:21,394 --> 00:57:22,439
♪ If you want something...

1311
00:57:22,482 --> 00:57:23,701
One of the workers

1312
00:57:23,744 --> 00:57:25,485
changed my screensaver
on my laptop

1313
00:57:25,529 --> 00:57:26,834
to Mike Teti.

1314
00:57:26,878 --> 00:57:28,270
That's a gangster right there.

1315
00:57:28,314 --> 00:57:29,576
Put that back up there.

1316
00:57:29,620 --> 00:57:31,665
Gangsters drink pink coffee,
man, you know?

1317
00:57:31,709 --> 00:57:32,797
Get ya some.

1318
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,321
Oh, my God,
look at those guns!

1319
00:57:35,364 --> 00:57:37,192
♪ Yeah

1320
00:57:37,236 --> 00:57:38,977
♪ A-A

1321
00:57:39,020 --> 00:57:40,500
♪ Fraid-fraid

1322
00:57:40,544 --> 00:57:44,025
We went through too much
in our lives to stop now.

1323
00:57:44,069 --> 00:57:46,506
Little late-night erg.
Peace.

1324
00:57:46,550 --> 00:57:48,247
Biggest fan right there.

1325
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,119
We're coming for gold, baby.

1326
00:57:51,163 --> 00:57:54,079
See you guys on the flip side,
motherfuckers!

1327
00:57:55,428 --> 00:57:56,385
♪ Uh-uh

1328
00:57:56,429 --> 00:57:58,779
♪ What, what, what, what

1329
00:57:58,823 --> 00:58:01,303
♪ What, what, what

1330
00:58:01,347 --> 00:58:03,915
- ♪ Yo, yo
- ♪ Yo, yo

1331
00:58:03,958 --> 00:58:06,961
- ♪ Yo, yo
- ♪ Yo, yo

1332
00:58:07,005 --> 00:58:08,136
- ♪ It's getting short
- ♪ Short

1333
00:58:08,180 --> 00:58:09,660
- ♪ Look
- ♪ Look

1334
00:58:09,703 --> 00:58:10,661
- ♪ Yo
- ♪ Yo

1335
00:58:10,704 --> 00:58:11,618
♪ Go against the current

1336
00:58:11,662 --> 00:58:12,576
♪ What my mother sang

1337
00:58:12,619 --> 00:58:13,968
♪ Mother sang

1338
00:58:14,012 --> 00:58:15,796
♪ I was always taught
to go the other way ♪

1339
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,146
♪ Crazy what happens
whenever minds meet ♪

1340
00:58:18,190 --> 00:58:20,540
♪ Never thought this would
happen coming from my street ♪

1341
00:58:20,584 --> 00:58:23,238
♪ FX, her gunshots,
whenever I sleep ♪

1342
00:58:23,282 --> 00:58:26,067
♪ They lack vision,
they don't see what I see ♪

1343
00:58:26,111 --> 00:58:27,416
♪ Star player for my...

1344
00:58:27,460 --> 00:58:29,244
Keep it relaxed
in the upper body.

1345
00:58:29,288 --> 00:58:31,551
Drive through the legs.
Drive through the hips.

1346
00:58:31,595 --> 00:58:33,988
Can't tell you how fun
this is for me to watch.

1347
00:58:34,032 --> 00:58:35,468
So when you're ready,
let's pick it up.

1348
00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:37,035
♪ ...I got crazy aim

1349
00:58:37,078 --> 00:58:39,559
♪ Lewis Hamilton, my handle,
never changed a lane ♪

1350
00:58:39,603 --> 00:58:41,518
♪ I run all four seasons,
never get a sprain ♪

1351
00:58:41,561 --> 00:58:42,867
- ♪ Track
- ♪ Track, track

1352
00:58:42,910 --> 00:58:44,695
♪ Take a couple reds
to ease the pain ♪

1353
00:58:44,738 --> 00:58:46,566
They're moving well together.

1354
00:58:46,610 --> 00:58:48,612
There's still
some serious power.

1355
00:58:48,655 --> 00:58:49,526
I was impressed.

1356
00:58:51,963 --> 00:58:54,879
♪ FX, her gunshots
whenever I sleep ♪

1357
00:58:54,922 --> 00:58:57,621
♪ They lack vision,
they don't see what I see ♪

1358
00:58:57,664 --> 00:58:59,274
♪ Star player for my city,
man ♪

1359
00:58:59,318 --> 00:59:01,146
- ♪ I does it all
- ♪ Does it all

1360
00:59:01,189 --> 00:59:02,669
♪ Never hooped,
but I wanna ball ♪

1361
00:59:02,713 --> 00:59:03,844
♪ Wanna ball, wanna ball

1362
00:59:03,888 --> 00:59:05,063
MARC:
Just to see them out there,

1363
00:59:05,106 --> 00:59:06,281
remember them
like it was yesterday,

1364
00:59:06,325 --> 00:59:07,805
it was just
really, really special.

1365
00:59:08,806 --> 00:59:09,937
- Thanks a lot, man.
- Yeah.

1366
00:59:09,981 --> 00:59:11,460
- Yeah, man.
- Just like old times.

1367
00:59:11,504 --> 00:59:12,897
- You seen--
- You guys haven't--

1368
00:59:12,940 --> 00:59:14,551
You guys haven't
changed a bit.

1369
00:59:16,378 --> 00:59:19,468
May has always been-

1370
00:59:19,512 --> 00:59:22,254
has always been
a messed-up month for me.

1371
00:59:25,170 --> 00:59:27,955
Um, my mother
passed away.

1372
00:59:27,999 --> 00:59:30,567
A few years after that,
my father passed away.

1373
00:59:30,610 --> 00:59:31,959
Every time this month come,

1374
00:59:32,003 --> 00:59:34,396
I always feel
some sense of sadness.

1375
00:59:37,182 --> 00:59:41,926
The most difficult obstacle
I had to overcome,

1376
00:59:41,969 --> 00:59:44,189
it had something to do
with my father.

1377
00:59:45,538 --> 00:59:48,323
I can't remember
when it started.

1378
00:59:48,367 --> 00:59:50,369
I was very young.

1379
00:59:51,979 --> 00:59:54,503
He was doing things
to my sisters

1380
00:59:54,547 --> 00:59:56,157
that wasn't right.

1381
00:59:56,201 --> 00:59:57,768
And the discussion

1382
00:59:57,811 --> 01:00:00,248
that you want to have
with each other, you don't.

1383
01:00:00,292 --> 01:00:02,511
You know, you don't want
to believe it.

1384
01:00:02,555 --> 01:00:04,949
When I figured out
it was wrong,

1385
01:00:04,992 --> 01:00:07,821
I was about 10.

1386
01:00:07,865 --> 01:00:11,912
You know, it was something
that was never spoke about.

1387
01:00:11,956 --> 01:00:13,914
I told her that I was gonna
kill my dad.

1388
01:00:14,959 --> 01:00:17,091
We both wanted to.

1389
01:00:17,135 --> 01:00:19,528
And my baby sister was like,

1390
01:00:19,572 --> 01:00:22,749
"Whatever you gonna do,
I'ma do it with you."

1391
01:00:22,793 --> 01:00:25,186
I looked at her,
I started thinking, like,

1392
01:00:25,230 --> 01:00:27,972
I can't have her
involved in this.

1393
01:00:28,015 --> 01:00:29,364
I'm the oldest,
so I was like,

1394
01:00:29,408 --> 01:00:32,063
I'll be okay,
but they won't be okay.

1395
01:00:35,327 --> 01:00:36,545
For a long time,

1396
01:00:36,589 --> 01:00:40,680
I felt like I allowed him
to keep doing it

1397
01:00:40,724 --> 01:00:42,595
because I didn't kill him.

1398
01:00:45,032 --> 01:00:47,687
I blamed myself
for a long time.

1399
01:00:47,731 --> 01:00:49,863
My mother,
she broke down and cried

1400
01:00:49,907 --> 01:00:51,996
and said she wished
she could've been there.

1401
01:00:52,039 --> 01:00:54,041
But you know,
when you're on drugs,

1402
01:00:54,085 --> 01:00:55,477
y-you can't...

1403
01:00:55,521 --> 01:00:58,655
you can't be there
for someone.

1404
01:00:58,698 --> 01:01:01,832
It has to be talked about
in order to heal.

1405
01:01:01,875 --> 01:01:06,053
But I--I had a talk
with my sister Angie,

1406
01:01:06,097 --> 01:01:07,664
and she was like...

1407
01:01:14,758 --> 01:01:16,194
she w--[groan]--

1408
01:01:16,237 --> 01:01:18,500
she was like,
"It's not your fault."

1409
01:01:20,111 --> 01:01:21,373
Ahh.

1410
01:01:23,897 --> 01:01:26,595
The loyalty that he has
for the people that he's loved

1411
01:01:26,639 --> 01:01:29,163
is unmeasurable.

1412
01:01:34,952 --> 01:01:38,520
We found out
that his sister was beaten

1413
01:01:38,564 --> 01:01:42,655
and she grab a bat
and she leaves the house.

1414
01:01:42,699 --> 01:01:44,831
Alvin right away snapped.

1415
01:01:44,875 --> 01:01:47,747
And this guy's a known shooter.

1416
01:01:47,791 --> 01:01:50,054
So I get my gun.

1417
01:01:50,097 --> 01:01:52,491
When you confront someone
that's in a gang,

1418
01:01:52,534 --> 01:01:54,362
you don't go emptyhanded.

1419
01:01:54,406 --> 01:01:56,451
That's just suicide.

1420
01:01:56,495 --> 01:01:58,497
And then I just heard
a gunshot.

1421
01:02:00,368 --> 01:02:02,153
He shot at the van,

1422
01:02:02,196 --> 01:02:04,372
and it hit someone else
in the car.

1423
01:02:04,416 --> 01:02:06,984
Alvin was married,
owned his company,

1424
01:02:07,027 --> 01:02:10,248
and now he's on trial
for protecting his family.

1425
01:02:12,467 --> 01:02:15,340
So the stakes
were very, very high.

1426
01:02:15,383 --> 01:02:18,517
He was looking down the barrel
of decades in prison.

1427
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,044
I was incarcerated
for five years.

1428
01:02:24,088 --> 01:02:25,785
I do regret that

1429
01:02:25,829 --> 01:02:28,222
'cause it could've probably
been handled different,

1430
01:02:28,266 --> 01:02:32,009
but, because of who he was
and his reputation,

1431
01:02:32,052 --> 01:02:34,576
I handled it the street way.

1432
01:02:36,274 --> 01:02:37,275
JENNIFER BONJEAN:
To this day,

1433
01:02:37,318 --> 01:02:38,580
I firmly believe

1434
01:02:38,624 --> 01:02:40,887
that he acted
in self-defense of others,

1435
01:02:40,931 --> 01:02:44,630
which means he should not
have been convicted, period.

1436
01:02:44,673 --> 01:02:46,371
When we're at sentencing,

1437
01:02:46,414 --> 01:02:49,461
the judge for the first time
looked at Alvin's background,

1438
01:02:49,504 --> 01:02:51,028
and there's nothing on it,

1439
01:02:51,071 --> 01:02:53,682
and he's like, "Oh, this guy
doesn't have a sheet at all,"

1440
01:02:53,726 --> 01:02:55,249
meaning he doesn't have
a background at all.

1441
01:02:55,293 --> 01:02:57,077
I'm like, "Yeah, you dumbass.

1442
01:02:57,121 --> 01:02:58,731
"He doesn't have a sheet

1443
01:02:58,775 --> 01:03:00,820
and you're about to send him
to prison!"

1444
01:03:00,864 --> 01:03:05,520
The time that I did in prison,
the five years,

1445
01:03:05,564 --> 01:03:07,174
I talked to God

1446
01:03:07,218 --> 01:03:10,830
'cause that place, man,
that place can change you.

1447
01:03:10,874 --> 01:03:12,310
I didn't let that place,

1448
01:03:12,353 --> 01:03:16,531
like, turn me into a--
a worse, you know...

1449
01:03:16,575 --> 01:03:19,099
I kind of--I made it out.

1450
01:03:33,374 --> 01:03:36,421
♪♪♪

1451
01:03:40,947 --> 01:03:43,123
ARSHAY: We were entering
the final stretch,

1452
01:03:43,167 --> 01:03:46,039
and our rowing was
getting better.

1453
01:03:46,083 --> 01:03:50,043
And then one night,
I had another crazy idea.

1454
01:03:50,087 --> 01:03:53,786
If all of us guys could
get together in a boat,

1455
01:03:53,830 --> 01:03:56,615
from different neighborhoods
and rival gangs,

1456
01:03:56,658 --> 01:04:01,663
maybe, just maybe, we can do the
same with the Chicago Police.

1457
01:04:05,015 --> 01:04:07,844
So I invited them
to row with us.

1458
01:04:07,887 --> 01:04:10,063
But when I told the guys
about it,

1459
01:04:10,107 --> 01:04:12,849
they didn't think
it was such a good idea.

1460
01:04:14,372 --> 01:04:16,940
When Arshay invited the police
to row with us, man,

1461
01:04:16,983 --> 01:04:18,898
I was thinking,
Nah, man, forget that.

1462
01:04:18,942 --> 01:04:21,901
You know, you grow up looking
at them as the enemy.

1463
01:04:21,945 --> 01:04:24,773
I've probably never committed
a crime in my life

1464
01:04:24,817 --> 01:04:28,647
but still got my face pushed
flat down on a police car.

1465
01:04:28,690 --> 01:04:30,779
That's my experience,
and I hated--

1466
01:04:30,823 --> 01:04:32,259
hated everything about it.

1467
01:04:32,303 --> 01:04:34,174
Get pulled over
by some white cops.

1468
01:04:34,218 --> 01:04:35,697
I had on some light jeans.

1469
01:04:35,741 --> 01:04:37,351
He rubbed his feet in mud.

1470
01:04:37,395 --> 01:04:39,179
He said, "Nice pants."
He took his boot,

1471
01:04:39,223 --> 01:04:41,225
and he rubbed the mud
down the back of your pants.

1472
01:04:42,269 --> 01:04:43,662
Were they white jeans?

1473
01:04:43,705 --> 01:04:45,577
[laughter]
No, they were--

1474
01:04:47,971 --> 01:04:50,451
That's the other thing we--
we like to do as Black men.

1475
01:04:50,495 --> 01:04:52,453
We--We laugh sometimes

1476
01:04:52,497 --> 01:04:55,326
to avoid the--
the pain and the tears

1477
01:04:55,369 --> 01:04:56,936
because that's--
that's another thing

1478
01:04:56,980 --> 01:04:59,199
that we learn how to do,
uh, back in the day.

1479
01:04:59,243 --> 01:05:00,679
We would make a joke
about something

1480
01:05:00,722 --> 01:05:02,289
to cover the pain up.

1481
01:05:02,333 --> 01:05:03,987
If I can find four cops

1482
01:05:04,030 --> 01:05:06,119
and change their perspective
on how we live

1483
01:05:06,163 --> 01:05:07,642
and how we think
and how we grow up,

1484
01:05:07,686 --> 01:05:09,035
it's worth it.

1485
01:05:09,079 --> 01:05:12,212
I just know that, if rowing
can bring us together,

1486
01:05:12,256 --> 01:05:14,911
it can change the thought
process of the cops.

1487
01:05:14,954 --> 01:05:19,350
Preston, a cop, Malcolm, a cop,
me, a cop, then Alvin--

1488
01:05:19,393 --> 01:05:20,481
- How you doing?
- What's up, man?

1489
01:05:20,525 --> 01:05:21,830
- Hey, how's it going?
- Matt.

1490
01:05:21,874 --> 01:05:22,962
- So Arshay.
- Arshay, nice to meet you.

1491
01:05:23,006 --> 01:05:23,963
- What's up? I'm John.
- Preston.

1492
01:05:24,007 --> 01:05:24,921
- Arshay.
- Louis.

1493
01:05:24,964 --> 01:05:25,922
- Preston.
- Al.

1494
01:05:25,965 --> 01:05:26,966
- Pleasure.
- Malcolm.

1495
01:05:27,010 --> 01:05:28,098
- Louis.
- Uh, thanks, guys.

1496
01:05:28,141 --> 01:05:30,143
I want to thank you guys
for coming.

1497
01:05:30,187 --> 01:05:31,579
I think working together

1498
01:05:31,623 --> 01:05:33,668
to serve and protect
our communities,

1499
01:05:33,712 --> 01:05:35,844
I think it's a--
it's a powerful thing.

1500
01:05:35,888 --> 01:05:37,324
We're gonna--just gonna work
with you guys

1501
01:05:37,368 --> 01:05:39,326
and show you guys the--
the power of rowing

1502
01:05:39,370 --> 01:05:40,893
- and how it changed our lives.
- Cool.

1503
01:05:40,937 --> 01:05:42,025
So we'll make our way
upstairs.

1504
01:05:42,068 --> 01:05:43,374
And the first thing we gonna do

1505
01:05:43,417 --> 01:05:46,507
is show you the rowing motion
on the erg.

1506
01:05:46,551 --> 01:05:48,161
So this is the erg room.

1507
01:05:48,205 --> 01:05:49,771
This is where
a lot of magic happens.

1508
01:05:49,815 --> 01:05:51,948
This is the, like, first
step of rowing, actually.

1509
01:05:51,991 --> 01:05:53,427
Let me grab the handle
for you.

1510
01:05:53,471 --> 01:05:55,299
And so right here.
You sit tall. There you go.

1511
01:05:55,342 --> 01:05:56,735
Lean back a little bit.

1512
01:05:56,778 --> 01:05:58,345
Okay. Awesome.

1513
01:05:58,389 --> 01:05:59,956
You want to get some power.

1514
01:05:59,999 --> 01:06:01,131
You hear that fan?

1515
01:06:01,174 --> 01:06:02,219
That means you're working.

1516
01:06:02,262 --> 01:06:04,351
That means you--you're pulling.

1517
01:06:04,395 --> 01:06:06,353
Amazing.

1518
01:06:06,397 --> 01:06:08,181
We're gonna race each other,

1519
01:06:08,225 --> 01:06:09,791
and we gonna go race 200 meters.

1520
01:06:09,835 --> 01:06:11,576
That's about what,
two football fields.

1521
01:06:11,619 --> 01:06:13,708
So the time--
the lowest time wins

1522
01:06:13,752 --> 01:06:15,014
Right.

1523
01:06:15,058 --> 01:06:17,016
All right.

1524
01:06:17,060 --> 01:06:18,800
Ready, set, row!

1525
01:06:18,844 --> 01:06:23,414
♪ We just want
to get up here tonight ♪

1526
01:06:23,457 --> 01:06:26,156
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

1527
01:06:26,199 --> 01:06:27,548
♪ Oh, I

1528
01:06:27,592 --> 01:06:30,247
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

1529
01:06:30,290 --> 01:06:31,596
♪ Oh, I

1530
01:06:31,639 --> 01:06:32,640
♪ Oh, I

1531
01:06:32,684 --> 01:06:33,946
♪ I say first and foremost

1532
01:06:33,990 --> 01:06:35,382
♪ Your boy, I made it

1533
01:06:35,426 --> 01:06:37,123
♪ Ha, I was like that
because of street... ♪

1534
01:06:37,167 --> 01:06:38,255
[laughter]

1535
01:06:38,298 --> 01:06:40,387
All right, guys,
up to the catch.

1536
01:06:40,431 --> 01:06:41,258
♪ Came from the bottom,
now I... ♪

1537
01:06:41,301 --> 01:06:42,694
Ready, set, row!

1538
01:06:42,737 --> 01:06:44,000
♪ I ain't no game

1539
01:06:44,043 --> 01:06:45,044
♪ Keying up
in this game like... ♪

1540
01:06:45,088 --> 01:06:46,611
Come on, CPD!

1541
01:06:46,654 --> 01:06:48,004
♪ Wanna see you just feeling
like a damn soul train ♪

1542
01:06:48,047 --> 01:06:49,179
- It's all good!
- ♪ I'm, like, down with it

1543
01:06:49,222 --> 01:06:50,615
♪ Uh, yeah,
I want that thing ♪

1544
01:06:50,658 --> 01:06:52,182
♪ Back, get back, get back,
let me get it ♪

1545
01:06:52,225 --> 01:06:53,661
♪ Oh, back, get back,
get back ♪

1546
01:06:53,705 --> 01:06:54,967
♪ No, we wanna get up
from the place ♪

1547
01:06:55,011 --> 01:06:56,142
♪ Where the dreams
get shot... ♪

1548
01:06:56,186 --> 01:06:57,491
I'm gonna get me
a firefighter next time!

1549
01:06:59,276 --> 01:07:00,668
You got this, baby!

1550
01:07:00,712 --> 01:07:01,930
Look! They're still rowing.

1551
01:07:01,974 --> 01:07:03,193
- That's it.
- They're still rowing.

1552
01:07:03,236 --> 01:07:04,368
- That's it!
- Good job, Louis.

1553
01:07:04,411 --> 01:07:05,934
This is awesome.
This is beautiful.

1554
01:07:05,978 --> 01:07:06,979
You guys did great.

1555
01:07:07,023 --> 01:07:08,415
When young people see us

1556
01:07:08,459 --> 01:07:10,243
working together
to protect our city,

1557
01:07:10,287 --> 01:07:13,464
I think great things happen
for our young people.

1558
01:07:13,507 --> 01:07:15,596
So were gonna go
down to the tanks.

1559
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:18,034
♪♪♪

1560
01:07:18,077 --> 01:07:19,470
Arshay,

1561
01:07:19,513 --> 01:07:22,647
he's incredibly gifted
at bringing people together.

1562
01:07:23,952 --> 01:07:27,173
To go anywhere in the boat,
we have to be moving together.

1563
01:07:27,217 --> 01:07:29,828
To go anywhere in life,
we have to be moving together.

1564
01:07:37,444 --> 01:07:40,099
Let's find the person
in front of you.

1565
01:07:40,143 --> 01:07:42,362
Good job, Tim.
You're looking like a pro!

1566
01:07:44,147 --> 01:07:46,453
Seeing them, just all grown

1567
01:07:46,497 --> 01:07:48,803
and here together
with the police

1568
01:07:48,847 --> 01:07:50,718
and just doing
something positive.

1569
01:07:52,503 --> 01:07:54,461
Good job, Lou.

1570
01:07:54,505 --> 01:07:56,942
♪♪♪

1571
01:07:56,985 --> 01:07:59,162
What he's doing is
a beautiful thing to me.

1572
01:08:00,337 --> 01:08:03,862
White men, Black men,
all coming together,

1573
01:08:03,905 --> 01:08:05,733
and that's what he does--

1574
01:08:05,777 --> 01:08:08,084
making you come together
as a team.

1575
01:08:14,307 --> 01:08:17,484
That was a good job, guys.
That was good.

1576
01:08:17,528 --> 01:08:20,270
You hung on--hung in there.
Bow seat, hung in there.

1577
01:08:20,313 --> 01:08:21,662
Good job, guys.

1578
01:08:21,706 --> 01:08:22,620
I mean I thought
it was beautiful.

1579
01:08:22,663 --> 01:08:24,100
I seen you guys laughing.

1580
01:08:24,143 --> 01:08:26,058
I don't think Alvin had
this much fun with the cops

1581
01:08:26,102 --> 01:08:27,973
since, uh...
[laughter]

1582
01:08:28,016 --> 01:08:29,670
I was two!

1583
01:08:29,714 --> 01:08:31,107
Y'all definitely
should come out and support

1584
01:08:31,150 --> 01:08:32,630
when we do actually race
in July.

1585
01:08:32,673 --> 01:08:33,848
That'd be great to see
you guys on the side.

1586
01:08:33,892 --> 01:08:35,502
Tell us who you're
competing against,

1587
01:08:35,546 --> 01:08:37,461
and when they're
pulling in the parking lot,

1588
01:08:37,504 --> 01:08:39,158
we could pull them over.
[laughter]

1589
01:08:39,202 --> 01:08:40,420
Yeah! Play!

1590
01:08:40,464 --> 01:08:42,118
Feel like these guys are
working together.

1591
01:08:42,161 --> 01:08:44,903
That's how you work together.
That's what I'm talking about.

1592
01:08:44,946 --> 01:08:47,210
We got your back.

1593
01:08:47,253 --> 01:08:49,255
Would you guys row with us
at some point?

1594
01:08:49,299 --> 01:08:50,561
Yeah, yeah.

1595
01:08:50,604 --> 01:08:52,084
We could figure out
a race, find a race.

1596
01:08:52,128 --> 01:08:53,129
- Yeah?
- Absolutely.

1597
01:08:53,172 --> 01:08:54,130
Without a doubt.

1598
01:08:54,173 --> 01:08:55,479
Yeah? Maybe we can row a eight.

1599
01:08:55,522 --> 01:08:57,045
We can race a eight,
you know, I mean together.

1600
01:08:57,089 --> 01:08:59,309
- My boy Lou!
- Yeah, let's hear-- We can--

1601
01:08:59,352 --> 01:09:01,180
I tell you what.
You bring your crew,

1602
01:09:01,224 --> 01:09:03,878
and we bring our crew.
[laughter]

1603
01:09:03,922 --> 01:09:05,358
When we actually got
in the tanks,

1604
01:09:05,402 --> 01:09:07,795
I felt there was just
a little connection with them.

1605
01:09:07,839 --> 01:09:09,536
So I was like, "Maybe this--

1606
01:09:09,580 --> 01:09:11,756
this can be a good thing,
you know, for us."

1607
01:09:11,799 --> 01:09:13,061
They was pretty cool.

1608
01:09:13,105 --> 01:09:14,933
Starting rowing with them,
uh, it was cool.

1609
01:09:14,976 --> 01:09:16,587
Once they came
out of them uniforms,

1610
01:09:16,630 --> 01:09:18,458
they was regular human beings,
you know?

1611
01:09:18,502 --> 01:09:19,677
They was no different

1612
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:21,113
than anybody else
on the street, you know.

1613
01:09:21,157 --> 01:09:22,810
We was able
to relate to them,

1614
01:09:22,854 --> 01:09:24,769
kick it with them, crack jokes,
have a ball.

1615
01:09:24,812 --> 01:09:26,074
You know,
at the end of the day,

1616
01:09:26,118 --> 01:09:28,381
they go--they go home
to a family and kids

1617
01:09:28,425 --> 01:09:30,644
and mothers and wives, too.

1618
01:09:30,688 --> 01:09:32,342
So, you know,
we just don't get the chance

1619
01:09:32,385 --> 01:09:34,518
to see them in their element
or in that light sometimes.

1620
01:09:34,561 --> 01:09:36,737
It was cool to see that.

1621
01:09:36,781 --> 01:09:37,651
Goodbye, Lou!

1622
01:09:37,695 --> 01:09:39,436
[chatter]

1623
01:09:50,447 --> 01:09:52,666
I think this is
the start of, um,

1624
01:09:52,710 --> 01:09:54,712
something amazing
and something great.

1625
01:09:54,755 --> 01:09:57,193
I want to thank CPD
for coming out,

1626
01:09:57,236 --> 01:09:58,803
uh, rowing with us.

1627
01:09:58,846 --> 01:10:00,326
I'm excited to get
this eight together.

1628
01:10:00,370 --> 01:10:03,416
We also have U.S. Rowing
Olympic Coach Mike Teti with us

1629
01:10:03,460 --> 01:10:04,809
who's gonna coach us today.

1630
01:10:04,852 --> 01:10:08,508
I mean, there was a four,
and now there's an eight.

1631
01:10:08,552 --> 01:10:11,250
So I want to know
who selected this crew.

1632
01:10:11,294 --> 01:10:12,860
The Man upstairs
selected this crew.

1633
01:10:12,904 --> 01:10:15,080
- Yeah.
- That's it, man. Yeah.

1634
01:10:15,123 --> 01:10:17,300
We have a special guest
coxswain today--

1635
01:10:17,343 --> 01:10:19,737
Uh, Kevin, who rowed at Yale.

1636
01:10:19,780 --> 01:10:21,521
This is some bullshit.

1637
01:10:21,565 --> 01:10:24,437
[laughter]

1638
01:10:24,481 --> 01:10:26,309
There's the man.

1639
01:10:26,352 --> 01:10:27,397
Can we bring it in?

1640
01:10:28,963 --> 01:10:30,008
What do we want to say?

1641
01:10:30,051 --> 01:10:31,009
What's the word?
What's the word?

1642
01:10:31,052 --> 01:10:32,010
Anybody have a word?

1643
01:10:32,053 --> 01:10:33,141
"Chicago" on three.

1644
01:10:33,185 --> 01:10:34,230
"Row Chicago" on three.

1645
01:10:34,273 --> 01:10:35,840
One, two, three.

1646
01:10:35,883 --> 01:10:37,276
ALL: Row Chicago!

1647
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:38,538
All right.

1648
01:10:44,152 --> 01:10:47,591
The fact that Arshay and--
and these guys are rowing

1649
01:10:47,634 --> 01:10:49,375
with members of the--
of the police department,

1650
01:10:49,419 --> 01:10:52,073
I don't have words for sort
of the symbolism behind it.

1651
01:10:52,117 --> 01:10:53,292
Given
what they've gone through,

1652
01:10:53,336 --> 01:10:54,946
it's just--it's indescribable.

1653
01:10:58,297 --> 01:10:59,777
ALVIN:
What I do want to see, man,

1654
01:10:59,820 --> 01:11:02,214
- is all of us to--
- Swing the bow?

1655
01:11:02,258 --> 01:11:03,781
Yep. All of us get together

1656
01:11:03,824 --> 01:11:06,871
for like a, one of them
picnics or something, man.

1657
01:11:06,914 --> 01:11:09,003
Just turn a little bit?

1658
01:11:09,047 --> 01:11:11,876
Hearing the stories
that they share of growing up,

1659
01:11:11,919 --> 01:11:14,313
it was more of an antagonistic
relationship,

1660
01:11:14,357 --> 01:11:17,011
so creating an opportunity,
you know,

1661
01:11:17,055 --> 01:11:18,448
where they can share
with the police

1662
01:11:18,491 --> 01:11:19,797
something that's
special about them,

1663
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:21,581
maybe it'll
change some minds

1664
01:11:21,625 --> 01:11:24,715
and maybe be a positive thing
in the end.

1665
01:11:29,981 --> 01:11:32,375
MIKE: So it goes in square,

1666
01:11:32,418 --> 01:11:33,767
comes all the way through,

1667
01:11:33,811 --> 01:11:35,726
and then you feather.

1668
01:11:35,769 --> 01:11:38,076
As soon as I say the word "Go,"
you square it up.

1669
01:11:38,119 --> 01:11:39,295
Go.

1670
01:11:39,338 --> 01:11:40,861
ALVIN: Remember,
never let go of your oar.

1671
01:11:40,905 --> 01:11:42,559
- Keep one hand on it.
- That's it.

1672
01:11:48,434 --> 01:11:50,828
And relax. Relax more.

1673
01:11:50,871 --> 01:11:52,308
These guys were in gangs.

1674
01:11:52,351 --> 01:11:53,874
It doesn't matter
where they were.

1675
01:11:53,918 --> 01:11:55,528
It matters
where they're going.

1676
01:11:55,572 --> 01:11:57,704
- Hold up. Wait up.
- MIKE: Wait up.

1677
01:11:57,748 --> 01:11:59,445
Usually,
when we interact with guys

1678
01:11:59,489 --> 01:12:01,229
who were previously in gangs,

1679
01:12:01,273 --> 01:12:02,970
guys who were
previously in prison,

1680
01:12:03,014 --> 01:12:05,669
this is the last place ever
we would come together.

1681
01:12:10,717 --> 01:12:17,594
♪♪♪

1682
01:12:37,178 --> 01:12:38,397
It feels like a big family.

1683
01:12:38,441 --> 01:12:40,138
Literally, we're all
in the same boat.

1684
01:12:47,145 --> 01:12:48,973
These guys didn't need
to come back.

1685
01:12:49,016 --> 01:12:51,889
They came back, and their
focus is to help kids from--

1686
01:12:51,932 --> 01:12:53,717
in the neighborhood
they grew up in.

1687
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:56,981
That's--That's amazing.
That's amazing to me.

1688
01:12:59,505 --> 01:13:02,421
This is an obvious sign,
a physical sign,

1689
01:13:02,465 --> 01:13:04,467
that police and the guys
from the neighborhood

1690
01:13:04,510 --> 01:13:05,859
are physically working
together.

1691
01:13:05,903 --> 01:13:06,773
You can't miss it.

1692
01:13:06,817 --> 01:13:12,910
♪♪♪

1693
01:13:58,390 --> 01:14:00,305
MIKE: I thought it was
pretty good progress.

1694
01:14:00,348 --> 01:14:02,699
First time in the boat
for some of you?

1695
01:14:02,742 --> 01:14:04,309
- Lou?
- Me, yeah.

1696
01:14:04,352 --> 01:14:06,354
Okay. I actually think
that this is remarkable

1697
01:14:06,398 --> 01:14:09,749
to have you guys
and the police together.

1698
01:14:09,793 --> 01:14:11,316
Get all in the same boat,

1699
01:14:11,359 --> 01:14:12,535
and then it's, you know,

1700
01:14:12,578 --> 01:14:14,145
now you're all part
of the same team,

1701
01:14:14,188 --> 01:14:15,929
- so we're all family now.
- A family.

1702
01:14:15,973 --> 01:14:18,192
That's right, working together
as one team, you know?

1703
01:14:18,236 --> 01:14:19,237
Yeah.

1704
01:14:20,543 --> 01:14:22,370
We got a chance
to row with the cops,

1705
01:14:22,414 --> 01:14:26,505
and, um, I think the moment
that was--was awesome

1706
01:14:26,549 --> 01:14:29,552
is you--you have the biggest
cop out there, Big Lou,

1707
01:14:29,595 --> 01:14:30,814
who's about 6'7",

1708
01:14:30,857 --> 01:14:32,946
and sitting behind him
is Alvin,

1709
01:14:32,990 --> 01:14:37,342
who was locked up
for four and a half years.

1710
01:14:37,385 --> 01:14:39,518
I felt Big Lou
shaking next to me.

1711
01:14:39,562 --> 01:14:42,869
He--That's how hard
he was shaking.

1712
01:14:42,913 --> 01:14:44,697
And I tried
to calm him down,

1713
01:14:44,741 --> 01:14:48,527
telling him
to sit tall, breathe, relax.

1714
01:14:48,571 --> 01:14:49,528
"This is your moment.

1715
01:14:49,572 --> 01:14:50,790
"I've been here before,

1716
01:14:50,834 --> 01:14:54,751
and trust the fact
that we got your back."

1717
01:14:54,794 --> 01:14:56,143
ARSHAY: In my community,

1718
01:14:56,187 --> 01:14:58,537
we have no relationships
with the cops.

1719
01:14:58,581 --> 01:15:01,888
And people may not agree
with what I am doing.

1720
01:15:01,932 --> 01:15:04,935
ALVIN: It shocked me
when Arshay said,

1721
01:15:04,978 --> 01:15:08,199
"We should race with
the Chicago Police officers."

1722
01:15:08,242 --> 01:15:10,375
You know, I laughed and said,
"That's a good idea!"

1723
01:15:10,418 --> 01:15:11,768
But in the back of my head,

1724
01:15:11,811 --> 01:15:14,292
I was like, "Man, I don't
wanna row with their ass."

1725
01:15:15,423 --> 01:15:19,253
But Arshay explained
what he was trying to do.

1726
01:15:19,297 --> 01:15:20,907
I want my city to change.

1727
01:15:20,951 --> 01:15:25,608
I'm so tired of hearing kids
killing kids in my neighborhood.

1728
01:15:25,651 --> 01:15:27,871
I'm so tired of hearing, uh,

1729
01:15:27,914 --> 01:15:30,438
misconduct of the police
in my community,

1730
01:15:30,482 --> 01:15:32,440
so how do we fix it?

1731
01:15:32,484 --> 01:15:34,921
I'm not sure,
but what I do know

1732
01:15:34,965 --> 01:15:36,706
is that this sport has
the ability

1733
01:15:36,749 --> 01:15:39,578
to bring all different
kinds of people together.

1734
01:15:39,622 --> 01:15:41,841
ALVIN: You know it's a funny
thing about Arshay, man.

1735
01:15:41,885 --> 01:15:43,800
God blessed him with a gift.

1736
01:15:43,843 --> 01:15:46,498
That guy got the gift
to talk to people.

1737
01:15:46,542 --> 01:15:50,241
He's all about
bringing everyone together,

1738
01:15:50,284 --> 01:15:55,507
people you'd never think
would ever be together.

1739
01:15:55,551 --> 01:15:57,727
Chicago CPD.

1740
01:15:57,770 --> 01:15:59,598
I think that's gonna be
a great experience

1741
01:15:59,642 --> 01:16:02,209
not only for us
but for our city as well.

1742
01:16:02,253 --> 01:16:03,950
We all definitely
can come together as one

1743
01:16:03,994 --> 01:16:06,692
and make
something good happen.

1744
01:16:08,302 --> 01:16:10,653
ARSHAY: I know it's not
gonna change the system,

1745
01:16:10,696 --> 01:16:13,090
but it's a start.

1746
01:16:13,133 --> 01:16:15,396
One cop at a time.

1747
01:16:20,010 --> 01:16:23,579
♪♪♪

1748
01:16:25,537 --> 01:16:26,538
Ah!

1749
01:16:27,583 --> 01:16:30,847
Just finished my four-mile run.

1750
01:16:30,890 --> 01:16:34,198
I just finished my 10,000-meter
workout for the day.

1751
01:16:38,985 --> 01:16:41,640
Really didn't want to do it.
Didn't feel like it.

1752
01:16:41,684 --> 01:16:43,511
- Tired as hell.
- I just don't want

1753
01:16:43,555 --> 01:16:44,861
to get out there
and get embarrassed.

1754
01:16:44,904 --> 01:16:47,777
I'm too old.
I'm too old for this shit.

1755
01:16:49,996 --> 01:16:53,173
♪♪♪

1756
01:16:53,217 --> 01:16:54,871
ARSHAY:
We had two weeks to go,

1757
01:16:54,914 --> 01:16:57,308
and all of us
was feeling exhausted.

1758
01:16:57,351 --> 01:17:00,311
I thought a visit from
a friend of mine, Uriah Hall,

1759
01:17:00,354 --> 01:17:02,618
would be exactly
what we needed.

1760
01:17:02,661 --> 01:17:06,012
Uriah Hall is a UFC fighter,
top 10 in the world,

1761
01:17:06,056 --> 01:17:08,754
and he is a force of nature.

1762
01:17:08,798 --> 01:17:11,191
I want to bring in
my friend Uriah Hall.

1763
01:17:11,235 --> 01:17:14,194
You know everything about
competing and not giving up.

1764
01:17:14,238 --> 01:17:15,456
Hope that you can come

1765
01:17:15,500 --> 01:17:16,719
and just motivate the guys,
you know?

1766
01:17:23,290 --> 01:17:25,075
I've never seen a Black team.

1767
01:17:25,118 --> 01:17:27,773
That is uplifting.
That's awesome.

1768
01:17:29,819 --> 01:17:32,996
So now you get an opportunity
to inspire another generation.

1769
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:35,128
What are you gonna do with it?

1770
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:39,524
Pain is temporary.

1771
01:17:39,567 --> 01:17:41,657
Self-doubt
and negative affirmation

1772
01:17:41,700 --> 01:17:43,223
or "I wish,"
"I could've," "should've,"

1773
01:17:43,267 --> 01:17:45,617
that's gonna last
a long time.

1774
01:17:50,491 --> 01:17:52,842
When your want
becomes a must...

1775
01:17:54,844 --> 01:17:56,584
nothing can stop that.

1776
01:17:59,544 --> 01:18:01,154
DAVID: It's pretty cool
to see those guys

1777
01:18:01,198 --> 01:18:02,721
kind of come back together.

1778
01:18:02,765 --> 01:18:04,375
You're all in one boat,
right?

1779
01:18:04,418 --> 01:18:06,072
So if you don't do
everything together,

1780
01:18:06,116 --> 01:18:07,900
you're gonna go nowhere.

1781
01:18:07,944 --> 01:18:10,207
It creates a special--
special bond.

1782
01:18:10,250 --> 01:18:12,122
Who knows what
the outcome will be?

1783
01:18:12,165 --> 01:18:14,472
But everybody, each of them,

1784
01:18:14,515 --> 01:18:15,908
each person in the sport,

1785
01:18:15,952 --> 01:18:17,562
and the sport itself
will be better

1786
01:18:17,605 --> 01:18:19,042
because of what they've done.

1787
01:18:21,305 --> 01:18:25,744
Preston, Pookie, Alvin,
Malcolm mean a lot to me.

1788
01:18:25,788 --> 01:18:27,006
I love those guys,
you know.

1789
01:18:29,226 --> 01:18:31,489
We will always be brothers.

1790
01:18:31,532 --> 01:18:34,318
MALCOLM: These guys mean
everything to me.

1791
01:18:34,361 --> 01:18:35,623
PRESTON:
Those are my brothers.

1792
01:18:35,667 --> 01:18:37,060
I don't look at them
as teammates anymore.

1793
01:18:37,103 --> 01:18:39,366
I look at them as family.

1794
01:18:47,635 --> 01:18:50,813
Well, it's the day
before race day.

1795
01:18:53,032 --> 01:18:55,382
I can't lie. I am nervous.

1796
01:18:55,426 --> 01:18:56,470
I'm super nervous.

1797
01:18:56,514 --> 01:18:58,690
Been up since 5:30 a.m.

1798
01:18:58,734 --> 01:19:00,823
The conditions is ridiculous
out here.

1799
01:19:00,866 --> 01:19:02,563
The boathouse
is flooded real bad,

1800
01:19:02,607 --> 01:19:04,696
so we have to walk
into that cold water.

1801
01:19:04,740 --> 01:19:05,784
That shit was icy.

1802
01:19:05,828 --> 01:19:07,568
We all have on rubber duckies.

1803
01:19:07,612 --> 01:19:08,656
Everything's
going through your head,

1804
01:19:08,700 --> 01:19:10,136
like, Oh, my God,
are we gonna win?

1805
01:19:10,180 --> 01:19:11,659
Are we gonna lose?
Are we gonna catch a crab?

1806
01:19:11,703 --> 01:19:12,878
Are we gonna hit the wall?

1807
01:19:12,922 --> 01:19:14,401
No crabs this time.

1808
01:19:14,445 --> 01:19:16,360
No shorts
getting caught in the tracks.

1809
01:19:16,403 --> 01:19:17,578
Okay, we're going
for the unisuits,

1810
01:19:17,622 --> 01:19:18,971
so that's the plan.

1811
01:19:19,015 --> 01:19:22,496
Small shorts, tight shorts,
leggings, whatever.

1812
01:19:22,540 --> 01:19:24,847
I want to look like
a real official rower this time.

1813
01:19:24,890 --> 01:19:27,284
So Arshay gave me
the postman shorts.

1814
01:19:27,327 --> 01:19:29,242
They're really short
and really tight.

1815
01:19:29,286 --> 01:19:32,289
The squad's gonna look pretty
fucking good, man. Pretty good.

1816
01:19:32,332 --> 01:19:34,204
We're making history,
the first Black--

1817
01:19:34,247 --> 01:19:36,380
all-Black rowing team

1818
01:19:36,423 --> 01:19:37,990
and the first time

1819
01:19:38,034 --> 01:19:40,601
that somebody's gonna be
rowing in an ankle bracelet.

1820
01:19:40,645 --> 01:19:42,647
[laughter]

1821
01:19:42,690 --> 01:19:43,909
History in the making, baby.

1822
01:19:43,953 --> 01:19:45,781
- Yeah. That's...
- Making history out here.

1823
01:19:45,824 --> 01:19:47,217
We're gonna try to,
you know, get out here

1824
01:19:47,260 --> 01:19:49,523
and--and--and--and make
some real shit happen.

1825
01:19:49,567 --> 01:19:51,830
We're trying to rewrite
history here.

1826
01:19:51,874 --> 01:19:54,398
Me, Preston, Malcolm,
Alvin, Pookie,

1827
01:19:54,441 --> 01:19:55,660
we're the boat men.

1828
01:19:55,703 --> 01:19:56,835
And we're gonna win.

1829
01:19:56,879 --> 01:19:58,924
This is our time.

1830
01:19:58,968 --> 01:20:01,318
See you guys
at the start line.

1831
01:20:01,361 --> 01:20:02,232
Peace out.

1832
01:20:12,285 --> 01:20:14,244
♪ Yo, ahem

1833
01:20:14,287 --> 01:20:15,723
♪ I've been gone
for way too long ♪

1834
01:20:15,767 --> 01:20:17,116
♪ Now I'm Black,
and I'm back... ♪

1835
01:20:18,683 --> 01:20:22,339
Today's the day. Their day.

1836
01:20:22,382 --> 01:20:24,123
♪ On my way up,
saw when this day wasn't there ♪

1837
01:20:24,167 --> 01:20:25,690
♪ But you can't
struggle for... ♪

1838
01:20:25,733 --> 01:20:29,215
Preston, Alvin,
Malcolm, and Arshay

1839
01:20:29,259 --> 01:20:33,002
have entered not one
but two races.

1840
01:20:33,045 --> 01:20:35,787
♪ You struggle forever, baby,
you struggle forever ♪

1841
01:20:35,831 --> 01:20:36,875
♪ Struggle forever, baby...

1842
01:20:36,919 --> 01:20:38,224
The first race

1843
01:20:38,268 --> 01:20:41,401
is with the Chicago
Police Department.

1844
01:20:41,445 --> 01:20:43,316
A beautiful gesture

1845
01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:45,753
with great
generosity of spirit.

1846
01:20:45,797 --> 01:20:48,321
Big Lou! What's up, baby?

1847
01:20:48,365 --> 01:20:49,975
- Preacher man!
- How are you, sir?

1848
01:20:50,019 --> 01:20:51,020
Preacher Man,
what's going on?

1849
01:20:51,063 --> 01:20:52,064
Race day. Race day.

1850
01:20:52,108 --> 01:20:53,413
Father, we come before You,

1851
01:20:53,457 --> 01:20:55,067
and we pray,
God, for our city,

1852
01:20:55,111 --> 01:20:57,113
that You
continue to protect it,

1853
01:20:57,156 --> 01:20:58,897
bring change to communities

1854
01:20:58,941 --> 01:21:01,291
that have been looking
for change for so long.

1855
01:21:01,334 --> 01:21:03,249
Lord, today,
bring us all together.

1856
01:21:03,293 --> 01:21:04,860
We all know
that hope is a big part

1857
01:21:04,903 --> 01:21:06,818
of getting past
all of our differences

1858
01:21:06,862 --> 01:21:08,907
and things that have
gone wrong in this city.

1859
01:21:08,951 --> 01:21:10,561
The Good Book said
that hope floats,

1860
01:21:10,604 --> 01:21:13,433
and hopefully we're full
of hope today, so we float.

1861
01:21:13,477 --> 01:21:15,740
Keep us fast
and keep us safe.

1862
01:21:15,783 --> 01:21:17,916
In Your name we pray.

1863
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:21,093
- Amen.
- "Chicago" on three.

1864
01:21:21,137 --> 01:21:22,181
One, two, three.

1865
01:21:22,225 --> 01:21:24,053
Chicago!

1866
01:21:24,096 --> 01:21:26,055
AMANDA: Overheads, ready, up.

1867
01:21:26,098 --> 01:21:28,753
Shoulders, ready, split.

1868
01:21:28,796 --> 01:21:31,669
[applause]

1869
01:21:33,018 --> 01:21:34,672
- Let's go!
- Let's go!

1870
01:21:34,715 --> 01:21:36,587
Let's go!

1871
01:21:50,688 --> 01:21:52,298
So, Amanda,
I want to appreciate you

1872
01:21:52,342 --> 01:21:54,170
coming on board
and stepping in for me.

1873
01:21:54,213 --> 01:21:55,171
It means a lot.

1874
01:21:55,214 --> 01:21:56,389
Honestly, my pleasure.

1875
01:21:56,433 --> 01:21:57,564
Thanks for having me.

1876
01:21:57,608 --> 01:21:59,001
I appreciate it. Thank you.

1877
01:21:59,044 --> 01:22:00,219
Now hug.

1878
01:22:00,263 --> 01:22:01,220
[chuckles]

1879
01:22:01,264 --> 01:22:02,395
Let's go!

1880
01:22:02,439 --> 01:22:04,397
We all going
balls to the wall, baby.

1881
01:22:04,441 --> 01:22:05,877
Winner take all!

1882
01:22:08,532 --> 01:22:11,404
ANNOUNCER: Lane 74,
go ahead, get onto the course.

1883
01:22:11,448 --> 01:22:12,753
Lane 74.

1884
01:22:13,885 --> 01:22:16,192
Boat into the water.

1885
01:22:16,235 --> 01:22:17,671
Ease into the water.

1886
01:22:25,636 --> 01:22:27,246
They'll race with a purpose

1887
01:22:27,290 --> 01:22:29,422
far greater
than who might win,

1888
01:22:29,466 --> 01:22:32,164
a symbol
for what can be possible

1889
01:22:32,208 --> 01:22:35,559
when unlikely rivals manage
to come together.

1890
01:22:35,602 --> 01:22:37,778
AMANDA: Seven seat, back it.
Sit ready at the catch.

1891
01:22:37,822 --> 01:22:42,087
They'll head down the course
today on this water.

1892
01:22:42,131 --> 01:22:43,262
STARTER: Lincoln Park.

1893
01:22:43,306 --> 01:22:45,482
Together, as one.

1894
01:22:45,525 --> 01:22:48,572
Manley CPD.

1895
01:22:48,615 --> 01:22:49,877
♪ Yeah

1896
01:22:49,921 --> 01:22:52,010
Attention.

1897
01:22:52,054 --> 01:22:54,012
- Go!
- ♪ Holla up

1898
01:22:54,056 --> 01:22:56,493
♪ Uh, yeah, yeah

1899
01:22:56,536 --> 01:22:58,408
♪ I got to fight,
I got to fight ♪

1900
01:22:58,451 --> 01:22:59,626
♪ I got to breathe

1901
01:22:59,670 --> 01:23:01,454
Aah! Let's go!

1902
01:23:01,498 --> 01:23:03,413
[Amanda shouting]

1903
01:23:03,456 --> 01:23:04,675
Aah!

1904
01:23:04,718 --> 01:23:06,633
AMANDA:
Yeah, Preston, go for it!

1905
01:23:06,677 --> 01:23:08,026
Yeah, Preston!

1906
01:23:08,070 --> 01:23:10,028
Hold on to them, guys!

1907
01:23:10,072 --> 01:23:11,987
♪ Uh, get back to the lack

1908
01:23:12,030 --> 01:23:14,076
♪ Spreading my dreams
from the way life made us ♪

1909
01:23:14,119 --> 01:23:16,034
♪ Everyone seems
so different lately ♪

1910
01:23:16,078 --> 01:23:17,905
♪ It's all good
'cause we came a long way ♪

1911
01:23:17,949 --> 01:23:19,211
♪ From that neck of the woods

1912
01:23:19,255 --> 01:23:21,126
♪ Lifestyles
of the rich and famous ♪

1913
01:23:21,170 --> 01:23:22,519
♪ Some live with a name,
some die nameless ♪

1914
01:23:22,562 --> 01:23:24,347
- Go!
- AMANDA: Five on the legs,

1915
01:23:24,390 --> 01:23:25,870
four for me.

1916
01:23:25,913 --> 01:23:28,046
Right here this is
three, two...

1917
01:23:28,090 --> 01:23:29,482
♪ How it feel to be
livin' in a matrix ♪

1918
01:23:29,526 --> 01:23:30,962
♪ When you're feeling
on the shoulder lane? ♪

1919
01:23:31,006 --> 01:23:33,051
♪ And my whole damn team,
they be so damn clean ♪

1920
01:23:33,095 --> 01:23:34,705
♪ The only thing,
we're gonna blow this... ♪

1921
01:23:34,748 --> 01:23:35,880
PRESTON:
Hey, every time I got tired,

1922
01:23:35,923 --> 01:23:37,751
she called my name.
I'm like, "Fuck!"

1923
01:23:37,795 --> 01:23:40,145
[grunts, chuckles]

1924
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:45,803
[cheers and applause]

1925
01:23:48,806 --> 01:23:50,242
All right!

1926
01:23:50,286 --> 01:23:51,852
We're gonna bring it in
on three.

1927
01:23:51,896 --> 01:23:53,419
"Bridge the water."

1928
01:23:53,463 --> 01:23:54,942
One, two, three.

1929
01:23:54,986 --> 01:23:56,509
ALL: Bridge the water!

1930
01:23:59,295 --> 01:24:01,471
ARSHAY: What if everyone
came together--

1931
01:24:01,514 --> 01:24:03,821
cops, gang members, clergy,

1932
01:24:03,864 --> 01:24:07,477
teachers, companies,
prosecutors, and judges--

1933
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:10,523
just like we all came
together?

1934
01:24:16,138 --> 01:24:17,356
It's time, baby.

1935
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:18,618
- Let's go.
- Bring it in.

1936
01:24:18,662 --> 01:24:20,229
- Bring it here.
- Three on the homies.

1937
01:24:20,272 --> 01:24:22,144
- One, two, three.
- On the homies!

1938
01:24:34,852 --> 01:24:37,028
I'm so proud of them.

1939
01:24:37,072 --> 01:24:38,421
Arshay didn't have to do it.

1940
01:24:38,464 --> 01:24:40,814
He didn't have to get them
back on the water.

1941
01:24:40,858 --> 01:24:43,078
The guys didn't
have to say yes.

1942
01:24:43,121 --> 01:24:45,210
But they're doing it.

1943
01:24:45,254 --> 01:24:47,647
Brothers encouraging brothers.

1944
01:24:47,691 --> 01:24:49,736
That needs to spread
like wildfire

1945
01:24:49,780 --> 01:24:51,129
through our communities.

1946
01:24:51,173 --> 01:24:53,740
AMANDA: All right, hands on.
Ready, push.

1947
01:24:55,655 --> 01:24:57,744
The fact that we're still--

1948
01:24:57,788 --> 01:24:59,485
we're still alive,

1949
01:24:59,529 --> 01:25:01,487
survived the West Side...

1950
01:25:01,531 --> 01:25:02,880
Their age group,

1951
01:25:02,923 --> 01:25:04,534
too many of them didn't make it.

1952
01:25:04,577 --> 01:25:07,450
Still being alive,
this is just such a blessing.

1953
01:25:09,060 --> 01:25:11,802
It's gonna be a remarkable
moment for everybody

1954
01:25:11,845 --> 01:25:13,020
when they come together

1955
01:25:13,064 --> 01:25:15,240
and get to that
starting line again.

1956
01:25:16,415 --> 01:25:18,678
They're gonna be
in front of their hometown.

1957
01:25:18,722 --> 01:25:20,332
There's gonna be
kids of color

1958
01:25:20,376 --> 01:25:21,942
seeing, you know,
seeing these, you know,

1959
01:25:21,986 --> 01:25:23,553
these men of color, you know,

1960
01:25:23,596 --> 01:25:27,383
actually in this boat racing
and doing something special.

1961
01:25:27,426 --> 01:25:30,951
I missed all the others,
but this one I won't miss.

1962
01:25:30,995 --> 01:25:33,911
Couldn't keep me away.
[chuckles]

1963
01:25:33,954 --> 01:25:36,000
I will cheer him on.

1964
01:25:37,567 --> 01:25:39,134
This race is about more

1965
01:25:39,177 --> 01:25:42,006
than the 1,000 meters
they'll cover.

1966
01:25:42,049 --> 01:25:44,965
It's about the content
of their character

1967
01:25:45,009 --> 01:25:47,707
and their commitment
to each other,

1968
01:25:47,751 --> 01:25:51,450
a brotherhood
pulling together,

1969
01:25:51,494 --> 01:25:54,627
a new path
drawn in their wake

1970
01:25:54,671 --> 01:25:56,629
for others to follow.

1971
01:25:58,457 --> 01:26:02,809
Win or lose,
when that flag comes down,

1972
01:26:02,853 --> 01:26:04,768
there's only one truth--

1973
01:26:07,249 --> 01:26:09,947
that they are still here.

1974
01:26:15,518 --> 01:26:18,434
STARTER:
Attention, Manley.

1975
01:26:18,477 --> 01:26:20,740
AMANDA: Just be ready
for anything.

1976
01:26:20,784 --> 01:26:21,654
Go!

1977
01:26:21,698 --> 01:26:26,703
♪♪♪

1978
01:26:28,270 --> 01:26:30,185
AMANDA: Row! Row!

1979
01:26:37,017 --> 01:26:39,759
Bury the blades!
Bury the fucking blades!

1980
01:26:46,462 --> 01:26:48,246
- [cheering]
- Come on!

1981
01:26:48,290 --> 01:26:49,987
You may write me down
in history

1982
01:26:50,030 --> 01:26:51,902
with your bitter, twisted lies.

1983
01:26:51,945 --> 01:26:53,773
You may trod me
in the very dirt,

1984
01:26:53,817 --> 01:26:55,601
but still, like dust,
I'll rise.

1985
01:26:55,645 --> 01:26:58,256
Malcolm, this is your time
to shine. Let's go for it!

1986
01:26:58,300 --> 01:26:59,866
Do you want to see me broken?

1987
01:26:59,910 --> 01:27:01,825
Bowed head and lowered eyes?

1988
01:27:01,868 --> 01:27:04,567
[cheering]

1989
01:27:04,610 --> 01:27:06,308
Yes, Preston,
you lay down the pace,

1990
01:27:06,351 --> 01:27:08,571
and everyone else
will follow.

1991
01:27:08,614 --> 01:27:10,964
Shoulders falling down
like teardrops.

1992
01:27:11,008 --> 01:27:13,315
Wakened by my soulful cries.

1993
01:27:14,838 --> 01:27:18,407
One for Preston!
Two for Malcolm!

1994
01:27:18,450 --> 01:27:21,671
Three for Arshay!
Four for Alvin!

1995
01:27:21,714 --> 01:27:23,716
You may shoot me
with your words.

1996
01:27:23,760 --> 01:27:25,501
You may cut me with your eyes.

1997
01:27:25,544 --> 01:27:27,154
You may kill me
with your hatefulness.

1998
01:27:27,198 --> 01:27:31,463
But still, like air, I'll rise.

1999
01:27:31,507 --> 01:27:33,813
AMANDA: Everyone's out here
to see you win, guys.

2000
01:27:33,857 --> 01:27:35,946
Pookie wants to see you win!

2001
01:27:35,989 --> 01:27:37,774
Out of the huts
of history's shame.

2002
01:27:37,817 --> 01:27:39,341
I rise.

2003
01:27:39,384 --> 01:27:41,734
Up from a past
that's rooted in pain.

2004
01:27:41,778 --> 01:27:42,561
I rise.

2005
01:27:42,605 --> 01:27:44,389
- I rise.
- I rise.

2006
01:27:44,433 --> 01:27:47,914
I'm a black ocean,
leaping and wide,

2007
01:27:47,958 --> 01:27:51,657
welling and swelling,
I bear in the tide.

2008
01:27:51,701 --> 01:27:55,313
Leaving behind
nights of terror and fear.

2009
01:27:55,357 --> 01:27:56,923
- I rise.
- I rise.

2010
01:27:56,967 --> 01:27:58,447
I rise.

2011
01:27:58,490 --> 01:28:01,754
Into a daybreak
that's wondrously clear.

2012
01:28:01,798 --> 01:28:03,190
I rise.

2013
01:28:03,234 --> 01:28:06,150
Bringing the gifts
that my ancestors gave.

2014
01:28:06,193 --> 01:28:09,545
I am the dream
and the hope of the slave.

2015
01:28:09,588 --> 01:28:10,720
I rise.

2016
01:28:10,763 --> 01:28:12,199
- I rise.
- I rise.

2017
01:28:12,243 --> 01:28:14,419
- I rise.
- I rise.

2018
01:28:31,436 --> 01:28:34,047
♪♪♪

2019
01:28:39,792 --> 01:28:43,535
And here to present the medals
for the Men's Novice 4

2020
01:28:43,579 --> 01:28:46,364
is two-time Olympian
David Banks.

2021
01:28:46,408 --> 01:28:49,324
[cheers and applause]

2022
01:29:12,434 --> 01:29:16,089
Bam. Two silver medals.

2023
01:29:16,133 --> 01:29:18,048
And you hear people
cheering for us--

2024
01:29:18,091 --> 01:29:19,528
Black people, white people,

2025
01:29:19,571 --> 01:29:22,835
men, women, gay, straight,
Christian, Muslim--

2026
01:29:22,879 --> 01:29:24,620
everyone's cheering for us.

2027
01:29:24,663 --> 01:29:26,970
I made my mom proud, too,
my sons, too.

2028
01:29:27,013 --> 01:29:28,450
They had a ball watching it.

2029
01:29:29,842 --> 01:29:33,368
My silver medals.
[chuckles]

2030
01:29:35,021 --> 01:29:36,849
When we first started
this team years ago,

2031
01:29:36,893 --> 01:29:38,111
most people would walk past

2032
01:29:38,155 --> 01:29:39,591
and looked at us
like we was contagious,

2033
01:29:39,635 --> 01:29:42,507
versus Chicago Sprints 2019,

2034
01:29:42,551 --> 01:29:44,379
we were welcomed
with open arms.

2035
01:29:44,422 --> 01:29:46,250
We won before the race.

2036
01:29:46,293 --> 01:29:47,338
We won before any of this.

2037
01:29:47,382 --> 01:29:48,992
We won in life.

2038
01:29:49,035 --> 01:29:50,515
We have a responsibility

2039
01:29:50,559 --> 01:29:52,343
to change
the West Side of Chicago.

2040
01:29:52,387 --> 01:29:54,171
The time is now to change,

2041
01:29:54,214 --> 01:29:57,130
to seek help.
The time is now.

2042
01:29:57,174 --> 01:29:58,828
That's it for now.

2043
01:29:58,871 --> 01:30:00,003
Enjoy yourself.

2044
01:30:09,839 --> 01:30:11,841
♪♪♪

2045
01:30:11,884 --> 01:30:14,104
♪ Pull it up, on 'em

2046
01:30:14,147 --> 01:30:16,193
♪ Pull it up, on 'em

2047
01:30:16,236 --> 01:30:18,325
♪ Pull it up, on 'em

2048
01:30:18,369 --> 01:30:20,371
♪ Pull it up, on 'em

2049
01:30:20,415 --> 01:30:21,981
♪ Pull it up on 'em

2050
01:30:22,025 --> 01:30:23,026
♪ Yo

2051
01:30:23,069 --> 01:30:24,810
♪ Pull it up on 'em

2052
01:30:24,854 --> 01:30:26,203
♪ Pull it up on 'em

2053
01:30:26,246 --> 01:30:30,555
♪ You might wanna
step out here tonight ♪

2054
01:30:30,599 --> 01:30:34,690
♪ We're just tryin'
to catch the feeling tonight ♪

2055
01:30:34,733 --> 01:30:37,344
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2056
01:30:37,388 --> 01:30:39,129
♪ Oh, I

2057
01:30:39,172 --> 01:30:41,653
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2058
01:30:41,697 --> 01:30:43,481
♪ Oh, I

2059
01:30:43,525 --> 01:30:47,703
♪ We not gonna act
out here tonight ♪

2060
01:30:47,746 --> 01:30:51,881
♪ We just want to get
up in tonight ♪

2061
01:30:51,924 --> 01:30:54,623
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2062
01:30:54,666 --> 01:30:56,189
♪ Oh, I

2063
01:30:56,233 --> 01:30:59,062
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2064
01:30:59,105 --> 01:31:00,933
♪ A whole lot, whole lot

2065
01:31:00,977 --> 01:31:02,544
♪ Uh, I say
first and foremost ♪

2066
01:31:02,587 --> 01:31:04,067
♪ Your boy done made it

2067
01:31:04,110 --> 01:31:06,069
♪ Ha, I was like that
because of street failing ♪

2068
01:31:06,112 --> 01:31:08,288
♪ This feeling can't wait,
this feeling can't take it ♪

2069
01:31:08,332 --> 01:31:10,377
♪ Came from the bottom,
now we done made it ♪

2070
01:31:10,421 --> 01:31:12,205
♪ Now no PlayStation,
I ain't no game ♪

2071
01:31:12,249 --> 01:31:14,381
♪ Keying up in this game
like there were no pain ♪

2072
01:31:14,425 --> 01:31:16,471
♪ Wanna see you just feelin'
like the damn soul train ♪

2073
01:31:16,514 --> 01:31:17,689
♪ I'm, like, down with it

2074
01:31:17,733 --> 01:31:19,125
♪ Uh, yeah,
I want that thing ♪

2075
01:31:19,169 --> 01:31:20,692
♪ Back, get back, get back,
let me get it ♪

2076
01:31:20,736 --> 01:31:22,172
♪ Oh, back, get back,
get back ♪

2077
01:31:22,215 --> 01:31:23,695
♪ No, we wanna get up
from the place ♪

2078
01:31:23,739 --> 01:31:24,827
♪ Where the dreams get shot

2079
01:31:24,870 --> 01:31:25,871
♪ And I feel like what

2080
01:31:25,915 --> 01:31:26,916
♪ Can't stop, won't stop

2081
01:31:26,959 --> 01:31:28,221
♪ Got me feeling like aah!

2082
01:31:28,265 --> 01:31:29,919
♪ No, if you ready or not
we gonna rise ♪

2083
01:31:29,962 --> 01:31:31,573
♪ So you holding on steady
tonight ♪

2084
01:31:31,616 --> 01:31:33,749
♪ And in a droptop screaming,
oh, you'll hear me tonight ♪

2085
01:31:33,792 --> 01:31:35,402
♪ That was good,
you won't have to come out ♪

2086
01:31:35,446 --> 01:31:39,363
♪ You might wanna
step out here tonight ♪

2087
01:31:39,406 --> 01:31:43,672
♪ We're just trying
to catch the feeling tonight ♪

2088
01:31:43,715 --> 01:31:46,370
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2089
01:31:46,413 --> 01:31:48,024
♪ Oh, I

2090
01:31:48,067 --> 01:31:50,635
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2091
01:31:50,679 --> 01:31:52,158
♪ Oh, I

2092
01:31:52,202 --> 01:31:56,554
♪ We not gonna act
out here tonight ♪

2093
01:31:56,598 --> 01:31:59,731
♪ We just want to get
up here tonight ♪

2094
01:31:59,775 --> 01:32:00,950
♪ Night, night

2095
01:32:00,993 --> 01:32:03,561
♪ Yo, I got to kiss
some baby ♪

2096
01:32:03,605 --> 01:32:05,432
♪ Oh, I

2097
01:32:05,476 --> 01:32:08,435
♪♪♪

2098
01:32:11,787 --> 01:32:13,702
♪ Yeah

2099
01:32:13,745 --> 01:32:15,617
♪ I got to fight

2100
01:32:15,660 --> 01:32:17,662
- ♪ I got to breathe
- ♪ I got to breathe

2101
01:32:17,706 --> 01:32:19,577
- ♪ Livin' my life
- Livin' my life ♪

2102
01:32:19,621 --> 01:32:20,709
♪ Holla, yeah

2103
01:32:23,755 --> 01:32:25,757
- ♪ I got to breathe
- ♪ I got to breathe

2104
01:32:25,801 --> 01:32:28,107
- ♪ Livin' my life
- Livin' my life ♪

2105
01:32:28,151 --> 01:32:29,152
♪ Uh

2106
01:32:32,024 --> 01:32:33,199
♪ Yeah

2107
01:32:33,243 --> 01:32:34,505
♪ Whoo-ooh

2108
01:32:37,943 --> 01:32:39,945
- ♪ I got to fight
- Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

2109
01:32:43,819 --> 01:32:45,472
♪ Holla

2110
01:32:45,516 --> 01:32:47,779
♪ Uh, yeah

2111
01:32:47,823 --> 01:32:49,868
- ♪ I got to fight
- ♪ I got to fight

2112
01:32:49,912 --> 01:32:51,783
- ♪ I to breathe
- I got to breathe ♪

2113
01:32:51,827 --> 01:32:53,611
- ♪ Livin' my life
- Livin' my, livin' my ♪

2114
01:32:53,655 --> 01:32:54,960
- ♪ Oh
- ♪ Yeah

2115
01:32:58,137 --> 01:32:59,791
♪ Whoo

2116
01:32:59,835 --> 01:33:01,445
♪ I got to

2117
01:33:01,488 --> 01:33:03,273
♪ Uh, in the back of the lack

2118
01:33:03,316 --> 01:33:05,362
♪ Spreading my dreams
from the way life made us ♪

2119
01:33:05,405 --> 01:33:07,407
♪ Everyone seems
so different lately ♪

2120
01:33:07,451 --> 01:33:09,148
♪ It's all good
'cause we came a long way ♪

2121
01:33:09,192 --> 01:33:10,628
♪ From that neck of the woods

2122
01:33:10,672 --> 01:33:12,543
♪ Lifestyles
of the rich and famous ♪

2123
01:33:12,587 --> 01:33:14,545
♪ Some live with a name,
some die nameless ♪

2124
01:33:14,589 --> 01:33:16,634
♪ Young boys
on a Black street brainless ♪

2125
01:33:16,678 --> 01:33:18,636
♪ When they bust their shots,
they end quick ♪

2126
01:33:18,680 --> 01:33:20,638
♪ How it feel to be
livin' in the matrix ♪

2127
01:33:20,682 --> 01:33:22,161
♪ When you're feeling
on the shoulder lane? ♪

2128
01:33:22,205 --> 01:33:24,163
♪ And my whole damn team,
they be so damn clean ♪

2129
01:33:24,207 --> 01:33:26,165
♪ And the only thing,
we gonna blow this dream ♪

2130
01:33:26,209 --> 01:33:28,559
♪ I know how it feel,
how it feel ♪

2131
01:33:28,603 --> 01:33:30,474
♪ How it feel
just to be so real ♪

2132
01:33:30,517 --> 01:33:32,215
♪ Just like you,
but we feel like steel ♪

2133
01:33:32,258 --> 01:33:33,912
♪ And the kook with the crew
that we're in for the kill ♪

2134
01:33:33,956 --> 01:33:35,871
♪ I want more
for my fam and myself ♪

2135
01:33:35,914 --> 01:33:37,960
♪ Want peace, want love,
want life, want wealth ♪

2136
01:33:38,003 --> 01:33:40,136
♪ I made this, had to fight
for my own, man ♪

2137
01:33:40,179 --> 01:33:41,877
♪ Whether we can stay
when I come for the bell ♪

2138
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:43,879
♪ Ah, let me know
what it's all for ♪

2139
01:33:43,922 --> 01:33:46,142
♪ If you want something,
then it's all yours ♪

2140
01:33:46,185 --> 01:33:48,231
♪ If you need something,
you can call for ♪

2141
01:33:48,274 --> 01:33:50,015
♪ Now we're making waves,
and we're on board ♪

2142
01:33:50,059 --> 01:33:52,061
- ♪ And we're free
- ♪ Free

2143
01:33:52,104 --> 01:33:53,018
♪ Wave

2144
01:33:54,106 --> 01:33:55,978
- ♪ Free
- ♪ Free, free, free

2145
01:33:56,021 --> 01:33:58,023
♪ Whoo-ooh

2146
01:33:58,067 --> 01:33:59,851
- ♪ Yeah
- ♪ Yeah

2147
01:33:59,895 --> 01:34:01,897
♪ Uh, uh, uh

2148
01:34:01,940 --> 01:34:03,246
♪ Breathe, breathe

2149
01:34:29,054 --> 01:34:31,274
- You making a YouTube video?
- No, I did, uh--

2150
01:34:31,317 --> 01:34:33,537
We're finishing up
a documentary.

2151
01:34:33,580 --> 01:34:35,147
So I'm just doing a little,
you know what I'm saying?

2152
01:34:35,191 --> 01:34:36,322
A couple of vlogging pieces

2153
01:34:36,366 --> 01:34:38,150
so I can go ahead
and get it edited.

2154
01:34:38,194 --> 01:34:39,499
What's the documentary about?

2155
01:34:39,543 --> 01:34:41,327
Um, it's about the first
all-Black rowing team.

2156
01:34:41,371 --> 01:34:42,589
Uh, uh...

2157
01:34:42,633 --> 01:34:44,330
Crew team.
Rowing team.

2158
01:34:44,374 --> 01:34:45,984
Rowing? Crew?

2159
01:34:46,028 --> 01:34:47,594
- Rowing?
- Yeah. Rowing boats and shit.

2160
01:34:47,638 --> 01:34:48,726
- What?
- Yeah.

2161
01:34:48,770 --> 01:34:50,685
That's dope.
Thank you, brother.